Do you wonder how to travel while staying in Terranova? People have told you that there’s only one bus to Cosenza and no other possibilities? Check out this article, to find out more interesting facts about public transportation in Terranova and its neighbourhood!
Here are collected not only bus schedules but also instructions, on how to find them on official websites, so that you can always check up-to-date schedules by yourself.
Bus stop location: 39.65787, 16.34013 (in front of the office)
It means that there’s direct bus from Terranova to Cosenza at 6:25 (usually it goes closer to 7:00) which arrives to Cosenza at 7:31 and other bus, at 14:15, when you have to change in Tarsia/Ferramonti at 14:40 to reach Cosenza at 15:16.
So, there’s one direct bus from Cosenza to Terranova at 12:10, and later there are 3 buses when you have to change (“Cambio”) in Tarsia/Ferramonti at 14:15, 17:30 (only in August) and 17:45.
Additional info: It’s important to click on “Mostra” button after searching the route – then the new window will open with all additional information about this course, for example on which days or months it is available (without Sunday, only August, etc.). You’ll see also every other stop and direction of the bus (e.g. only bus at 12:10 goes directly from Cosenza to Terranova, next busses are on the route from Catanzaro to Rossano, so there’s a probability that they can be late in Cosenza).
When you’ll finally reach Cosenza, there are a lot of other options for travelling, but you have to be aware that not all of them are close to the bus station (Autostazione), which is the last stop of IAS bus.
From bus station you can go by:
The train station in Cosenza is around 30 minutes (2.6 km) by walk from the bus station, you can also get out from IAS bus at the previous stops (remember to ask a bus driver for stopping!):
There’s a possibility to reach the train station by public communication. To check timetables of city transportation, it’s useful to have moovit.app installed (there’s also a normal website version): https://bit.ly/cosenzabustrain
From the train station you can easily reach top travel destinations as Tropea, Pizzo, Reggio Calabria, Diamante, many other cities on Tyrrhenian Sea coast (the route is amazing, you travel few metres from the coast, so you see sea all the time), Lamezia Terme, where’s the nearest Airport as well as further cities like Napoli, Rome etc. (but usually for longer trips, buses like Flixbus, Itabus are cheaper option).
There’s only 1 bus from Terranova to Corigliano at 7:10 in the morning, and 1 bus from Corigliano to Terranova in the afternoon: on Tuesday, Thursday and Sutarday at 13:10, and on Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 14:10.
One of the important bus stops on this route is Cantinella, where you can change to long-distance buses like Flixbus, Itabus, to reach e.g. Bari, Naples or Rome.
There are also other ways to reach Corigliano and Cantinella, for example taking a bus from Terranova to Tarsia/Ferramonti at 14:15 and then change to bus Catanzaro-Rossano at 14.50, which is stopping in Cantinella as well as in Corigliano – all bus schedules you can find on IAS autolinee website.
Another travel destination is Castrovillari, a city near mountains from where you can go on mountain hike, or by using public communication reach other worth visiting cities such as Civita or Morano Calabro.
Ferrovie della Calabria: http://www.ferroviedellacalabria.it/fdc/orari-autolinee/
This bus route is operated by another company, Ferrovie della Calabria (so-called blue bus, due to the colour of the bus). On this website, you can find Excel files with various bus schedules but above all, we are interested in the line “116 Terranova da Sibari – Castrovillari”.
Here is a screenshot (date: 24/08/2022), but remember to check the website to see if it’s still valid!
(Italians say that the return bus is at 13:10, 14:00 and 18:45, so be aware that even if you check the schedule on the official website the real departure time could be different.)
As you can see from the legend, this bus goes on “Periodo” – “Period”:
Instead of downloading Excel file, you can also use this link: http://www.ferroviedellacalabria.it/fdc/cerca-orari/ to find available bus solutions.
Above you could find descriptions of bus connections from Terranova to the nearest cities, but when you want to travel further afield, for example, to reach the airport in Lamezia Terme, Naples, Rome or Bari you need to go to a bus or train station with more travel options.
Below, you can find a summary of the nearest interchange points and useful links for optimizing your travel experience.
Here: https://bit.ly/busstopsterranova you can find a map with spotted bus stops, which were described in this article.
Make sure that when you’re buying tickets, you’re doing it on official websites, to avoid being cheated:
While travelling through Italy, it’s helpful to know about pages, which can help you with searching for the best travel solutions:
If, after reading all the information contained here, you still haven’t found a solution to your travel needs, remember that you always have 3 more options: