Rail transport in Italy high-speed train was the Italian ETR 200, which in July 1939 went from Milan to Florence at , with a top speed of . With this service, the railway was able to compete with the upcoming airplanes. The Second World War stopped these services. After the Second World War, Italy started to repair the damaged railways, and built nearly of new tracks. Nowadays the rail tracks and infrastructure are managed by Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI), while the train and the passenger section is managed mostly by Trenitalia. Both are Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) subsidiaries, once the only train operator in
Football derbies in Italy Football derbies in Italy This is a list of the major football derbies in Italy. Some derbies have developed on the basis of intra-city rivalries (locally called "stracittadine", "crosstowns" in English), others on a regional basis and others are formed due to sporting or political rivalry and have little to do with geographical proximity. Early Italian football was characterised by numerous meetings between teams of the same cities, as teams would compete in regional preliminary phases in order to compete at the national level. During the 1920s, the fascist leaders noted the great propaganda potential in what had become the