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Bologna Centrale is a railway station in Bologna, Italy. It is at the southern end of the Milan-Bologna high-speed line, which opened on 13 December 2008 and the northern end of the Bologna – Florence Direttissima, opened on 22 April 1934.
A new high speed line to Florence is expected working since December 12th 2009.
Today, Bologna Central Station is the fifth-largest passengers traffic in Italy (about 58,000,000 passengers per year). I
t is, however, one of the first for traffic volume, being tied with Rome Termini Station for train traffic (about 800 trains/day) because it is the principal railway junction of Italy.