Great Continental Railway Journeys
Genoa to the Brenner Pass
Season 5 Episode 4 of 6
Michael Portillo travels from the Italian Riviera to the Austrian Alps, starting in Genoa, where he learns how an Edwardian Briton introduced football to the port. He takes the train as it clings to the cliffs along the Riviera Di Levanti to reach the picturesque and remote villages of the Cinque Terre, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, before ending his journey in the famous Brenner Pass, the scene of a ground-breaking engineering project to build one of the world's longest rail tunnels
Great Continental Railway Journeys airs on Yesterday at 7:00 PM, Saturday 13 July. (Subtitles.)
Topics
Leisure hobbies
Tourism ➝ Travel
Michael Portillo
Presenter
Alison Kreps
Series Producer
John Comerford
Executive Producer