#5133· Metro van Catania
Catania Metro
🇮🇹 Italy ·built by Firema Trasporti S.p.A.· from 1999· rapid transit system in Catania, Sicily, Italy
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. L'elettrotreno M.88-08 alla stazione di Giovanni XXIII: Klabr· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Catania - stazione metropolitana Giovanni XXIII - elettrotreno CT1-001: Klabr· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Catania Metro (Italian: Metropolitana di Catania) is a rapid transit system serving the coastal city of Catania, Sicily, in Southern Italy. One of Italy’s seven metro systems, it is the only one in Sicily. It was also the first metro on an island in the Mediterranean Sea, and is now one of two, with the Palma Metro becoming the second in 2007, although it was only the sixth in a city on the Mediterranean, after Athens (1904), Barcelona (1924), Marseille (1977), Valencia (1988) and Naples (1993).
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 27 years ago, in 1999.
- Seats 442: 9 full city buses (~50 seats each).
- Still in service after 25 years.
metro: Urban rapid transit: frequent, high-capacity trains, often underground.
spec sheet
- built
- 1999
- in service from
- 2001
- status
- in service
- number built
- 8
- kind
- metro
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇮🇹 Italy
- builders
- Firema Trasporti S.p.A.
- operators
- Ferrovia Circumetnea
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- electric system
- 3000 V DC overhead pantograph
- formation
- 2-car permanently coupled sets
- capacity
- 442 passengers
- Dutch name
- Metro van Catania
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q239927, Wikipedia: Catania Metro (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.