Classic route
Riviera Line
Nice → Ventimiglia · France · MC · Italy
Riviera Line in pictures
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- Distance
- 34 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 50 min
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- SNCF
- Train
- SNCF TER
- Countries
- France, MC, Italy
- In service since
- 1872
Page last updated 2026-07-30 · figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The Riviera on rails: Nice, Villefranche, Monaco’s covered station, Menton lemon groves and over the border to Ventimiglia — forty minutes of Mediterranean out the right-hand window.
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