Cagliari railway station Cagliari railway station Cagliari is the main railway station of the Italian city of Cagliari, the capital of Sardinia. It is owned by the "Ferrovie dello Stato", the national rail company of Italy, and is the most important station of its region. The station is sometimes unofficially named "Cagliari Centrale" and "Cagliari Piazza Matteotti". This second name is due to station's position on Giacomo Matteotti Square. The station was inaugurated in July 1879, as terminus of the central Sardinian line to Oristano, Ozieri and Olbia. In 1893 it was linked to the port for freight traffic. In the late 1980s,
Rail transport in Vatican City September 1934, on which date the property passed from "Ferrovie dello Stato" (Italian State Railways) to the Holy See. In October 1934 the Ministry of Public Works gave the completed rail lines to Vatican City and Ferrovie dello Stato, respectively. "Legge sulle fonti del diritto" (7 June 1929) made Italian railway legislation binding on Vatican-controlled railways. In late March 1944, during the allied bombing of Rome in World War II, the Vatican discovered a German munitions train parked on the line by the Vatican railway station. Pope John XXIII, on 4 October 1962, became the first pope to use the