January’s issue of La Freccia: On the cover, Carlo Conti with a Sanremo anticipation

Rome, 2 January 2025

"The announcement of the top five artists competing each night, including the finalists, will be random, instead of following a ranking-related order. Therefore, those getting the most votes will not be announced. And this will make the winning artist’s proclamation all the more exciting!" This is how Carlo Conti, artistic director and host of the 75th edition of the Sanremo Italian Song Festival, exclusively anticipates to La Freccia the news on how the most voted singers will be announced during the song contest. The host also confirms that Selvaggia Lucarelli will be part of the DopoFestival as a regular guest, and that Bianca Guaccero, Gabriele Corsi, and Mariasole Pollio will present the PrimaFestival.  

And FS Group is all for news also, opening 2025 with the launch of the Strategic Plan for the next five years. A concrete renovation programme - with over 100 billion Euro invested - to strengthen the rail and road network, improve service quality, support the completion of infrastructure, and promote increasingly sustainable mobility. In this issue, Chief Executive Officer, Stefano Antonio Donnarumma, shares all the details of this ambitious, technology-driven transformation.

A journey into the future predicted in the early 1900s by the artistic movement founded by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, to whom the exhibition Il Tempo del Futurismo at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome is dedicated. The exhibition, sponsored by FS Group, finds ample space in the pages of the magazine, underlining the company's commitment to connecting people to knowledge, supporting and enhancing the Country's artistic heritage.

In this regard, we cannot but mention Agrigento, nominated Italian Capital of Culture 2025, thanks to a project that explores the relationship between individuals, nature, and territory. Many events are planned throughout 2025, inspired by the four elements - Air, Water, Earth, and Fire -, to offer new perspectives on topics such as social inclusion, innovation, and land enhancement.

2025 will also be the year of the Jubilee of Hope to which La Freccia will dedicate a column that will accompany readers throughout the year. And, after the sacred, the profane with Lumpa's horoscope, suggesting the ideal Italian destinations for this year, based on your star sign.

All this and more in January's La Freccia, available in digital format on FS Italiane, and in take-away print magazine on Trenitalia Frecce trains, in the FRECCIALounge and in FRECCIAClubs.