SALABLU DISABLED PASSENGER SERVICE BY TRENITALIA MAKES MAKES RAIL SERVICE ACCESSIBLE THROUGHOUT TUSCANY AND ITALY
Florence's Santa Maria Novella station is one of the few modern, 20th century buildings in the central city.
It has an outstanding family accessible restroom (you push a button and they let you in without charging you the one euro fee that everyone else pays.)
It also has a restaurant, souvenir shop, news stand, and pharmacy -- where you can buy tickets on the run.
You can also stand in line to buy a ticket from a live person, or use the very easy to understand, multilingual automated ticket machines.
For our trip to Lucca, we were a bit concerned about the arrival city.
Lucca itself is fabulous, one of the few cities in Italy that still has its Medieval wall entirely intact.
It's just that Lucca is a relatively small train station and we wondered about assistance.
Not to worry, a trio of helpers were there on arrival.
For the return trip, our train departed from a center platform.
Lucca doesn't have elevators, it has strong workers (pictured above with Heidi) who gingerly "bump" wheelchair users along the tracks to get back up to the center platform.
All was well from Lucca back to Santa Maria Novella.
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STORY CONTINUES TOMORROW, JULY 14
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