There are 13 ways to get from Bulgaria to Italy by plane, bus, train, car, or busferry
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Fly Sofia Airport to Bari Karol Wojtyła Airport
best- Fly from Sofia Airport (SOF) to Bari Karol Wojtyła Airport (BRI)plane SOF - BRI
4h 22m€50–146Fly Sofia Airport to Fiumicino International Airport
cheapest- Fly from Sofia Airport (SOF) to Fiumicino International Airport (FCO)plane SOF - FCO
5h 20m€23–108Bus, train via Cervignano del Friuli
- Take the bus from Sofia Central Bus Station to Triestebus
- Take the train from Trieste Centrale to Cervignano-Aquil.-Grtrain Re
- Take the train from Cervignano-Aquil.-Gr to Venezia Mestretrain
- Take the train from Venezia Mestre to Roma Terminitrain
22h 11m€163–268Drive 1,648.5 km
- Drive from Sofia to Romecar 1,648.5 km
15h 36m€258–373Fly Sofia Airport to Naples Airport
- Fly from Sofia Airport (SOF) to Naples Airport (NAP)plane SOF - NAP
4h 52m€30–126Fly Sofia Airport to Roma Ciampino Airport, train
- Fly from Sofia Airport (SOF) to Roma Ciampino Airport (CIA)plane SOF - CIA
- Take the train from Ciampino to Roma Terminitrain
5h 23m€48–186Fly Sofia Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport
- Fly from Sofia Airport (SOF) to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)plane SOF - CTA
4h 59m€35–125Fly Sofia Airport to Il Caravaggio International Airport, bus
- Fly from Sofia Airport (SOF) to Il Caravaggio International Airport (BGY)plane SOF - BGY
- Take the bus from Milan Bergamo Orio al Serio Airport to Piazza Luigi di Savoiabus
6h 2m€28–138Bus to Bucharest Otopeni, fly to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
- Take the bus from Ruse to Buchurestbus
- Fly from Bucharest Otopeni (OTP) to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)plane OTP - BLQ
6h 32m€36–174Bus, train
- Take the bus from Sofia Central Bus Station to Triestebus
- Take the train from Trieste Centrale to Padovatrain Fr
- Take the train from Padova to Roma Terminitrain
22h 38m€167–259Bus
- Take the bus from Sofia Central Bus Station to Bologna Centralebus
- Take the bus from Bologna Autostazione to Rome Tiburtina Largo Mazzonibus Itabus / ...
28h 9m€113–159Bus, train #2
- Take the bus from Sofia to Kumanovobus
- Take the bus from Kumanovo to Terni - Bus Terminalbus
- Take the train from Terni to Roma Terminitrain
29h 1m€131–166Bus, bus and ferry
- Take the bus from Sofia Central Bus Station to Tiranabus
- Take the busferry from Tirana to Anagninabusferry
33h 26m€147
Bulgaria to Italy by bus
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Bulgaria to Italy is to fly which costs €30 - €130 and takes 4h 59m.
The fastest way to get from Bulgaria to Italy is to fly which takes 4h 22m and costs €45 - €150.
No, there is no direct bus from Bulgaria station to Italy. However, there are services departing from Sofia Central Bus Station and arriving at Termini via Bologna Autostazione and Roma, Autostazione Tiburtina. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 28h 9m.
The distance between Bulgaria and Italy is 603 km. The road distance is 1648.5 km.
The best way to get from Bulgaria to Italy without a car is to bus and train via Cervignano del Friuli which takes 22h 11m and costs €160 - €270.
It takes approximately 4h 22m to get from Bulgaria to Italy, including transfers.
Bulgaria to Italy bus services, operated by M&M Travel, depart from Sofia Central Bus Station.
The best way to get from Bulgaria to Italy is to fly which takes 4h 22m and costs €45 - €150. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs €110 - €160 and takes 28h 9m.
Bulgaria to Italy bus services, operated by M&M Travel, arrive at Bologna Centrale station.
Italy is 1h behind Bulgaria. It is currently 7:07 AM in Bulgaria and 6:07 AM in Italy.
What companies run services between Bulgaria and Italy?
Ryanair and Wizz Air fly from Sofia Airport (SOF) to Bari Karol Wojtyła Airport (BRI) twice daily. Alternatively, you can take a bus from Sofia Central Bus Station to Termini via Bologna Centrale, Bologna Autostazione, and Roma, Autostazione Tiburtina in around 28h 9m.
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Sofia Airport to Bari Karol Wojtyła Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- When
- Thursday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €24–110
Flights from Sofia Airport to Naples Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- When
- Monday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €24–120
Flights from Sofia Airport to Roma Ciampino Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €40–170
Flights from Sofia Airport to Roma Ciampino Airport via Budapest
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €40–170
Flights from Sofia Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €30–85
Flights from Sofia Airport to Catania–Fontanarossa Airport via Malta
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €30–85
Flights from Sofia Airport to Il Caravaggio International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 4m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €30–130
Flights from Sofia Airport to Il Caravaggio International Airport via Bari Karol Wojtyła Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Thursday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €30–130
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €35–140
- Website
- wizzair.com
Flights from Sofia Airport to Bari Karol Wojtyła Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €12–120
Flights from Sofia Airport to Fiumicino International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €18–85
Flights from Sofia Airport to Naples Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €20–80
Flights from Sofia Airport to Il Caravaggio International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €16–95
- Website
- air.bg
Flights from Sofia Airport to Fiumicino International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €75–120
Flights from Sofia Airport to Fiumicino International Airport via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 35m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Wednesday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €60–160
- Website
- airserbia.com
Flights from Sofia Airport to Fiumicino International Airport via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 35m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Wednesday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €60–160
- Website
- flyulendo.com
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 12m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €26–130
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €80–310
- Phone
- +39.06.5210550
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Trieste Centrale to Cervignano-Aquil.-Gr
- Ave. Duration
- 38 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €5–9
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Cervignano-Aquil.-Gr to Venezia Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 16m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €12–21
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Ciampino to Roma Termini
- Ave. Duration
- 16 min
- Frequency
- Every 15 minutes
- Estimated price
- €1–3
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Terni to Roma Termini
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 38m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €11–19
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Trieste Centrale to Cervignano-Aquil.-Gr
- Ave. Duration
- 40 min
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €6–13
- Schedules at
- trenitalia.com
Train from Cervignano-Aquil.-Gr to Venezia Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 4m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €15–30
- Schedules at
- trenitalia.com
Train from Trieste Centrale to Padova
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 7m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €25–50
- Schedules at
- trenitalia.com
Train from Terni to Roma Termini
- Ave. Duration
- 59 min
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €14–28
- Schedules at
- trenitalia.com
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Trieste Centrale to Cervignano-Aquil.-Gr
- Ave. Duration
- 39 min
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €4–10
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Cervignano-Aquil.-Gr to Venezia Mestre
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 17m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €10–23
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Trieste Centrale to Padova
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 21m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €18–40
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Terni to Roma Termini
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 12m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €10–21
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- Phone
- +43 (0)5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from Trieste Centrale to Cervignano-Aquil.-Gr
- Ave. Duration
- 40 min
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €12–19
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/railjet
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket
- *
- €12–19
- Phone
- _AUSTRIAN_RAILWAYS_(ÖBB)
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from Trieste Centrale to Cervignano-Aquil.-Gr
- Ave. Duration
- 36 min
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €9–17
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/
- Phone
- +39 06 8937 1892
- Website
- italotreno.it
Train from Venezia Mestre to Roma Termini
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €60–130
- Website
- https://www.italotreno.it/en
Train from Trieste Centrale to Padova
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 31m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €21–45
- Website
- https://www.italotreno.it/en
Train from Padova to Roma Termini
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €60–120
- Website
- https://www.italotreno.it/en
- Phone
- +359 2 980 56 58
- [email protected]
- Website
- mm-travel.bg
Bus from Sofia Central Bus Station to Trieste
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 30m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €88
- Schedules at
- mm-travel.bg
- Book at
- tickets.mm-travel.bg
Bus from Sofia Central Bus Station to Trieste
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 30m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €88
- Schedules at
- mm-travel.bg
- Book at
- tickets.mm-travel.bg
Bus from Sofia Central Bus Station to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 30m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €95
- Schedules at
- mm-travel.bg
- Book at
- tickets.mm-travel.bg
- [email protected]
- Website
- terravision.eu
Bus from Milan Bergamo Orio al Serio Airport to Piazza Luigi di Savoia
- Ave. Duration
- 50 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €5–25
- Website
- https://www.terravision.eu/
- Phone
- +359 899199328
- [email protected]
- Website
- bgrazpisanie.com
Bus from Ruse to Buchurest
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €7–10
- Schedules at
- bgrazpisanie.com
- Phone
- +39 06 88 93 82 32
- Website
- itabus.it
Bus from Bologna Autostazione to Rome Tiburtina Largo Mazzoni
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 15m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €24–50
- Website
- https://www.itabus.it/en/home
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- [email protected]
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.fr
Bus from Bologna Autostazione to Rome Tiburtina Largo Mazzoni
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 45m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €30–55
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- (+39) 0923 98.11.20
- Website
- autoservizisalemi.it
Bus from Bologna Autostazione to Rome Tiburtina Largo Mazzoni
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 30m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €17–24
- Schedules at
- autoservizisalemi.it
- Phone
- +359 2 981 58 56
- [email protected]
- Website
- matpu.com
Bus from Sofia to Kumanovo
- Ave. Duration
- 5h
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €22–27
- Schedules at
- matpu.com
- Phone
- +359 0885700870
- [email protected]
- Website
- citylines.eu
Bus from Sofia to Kumanovo
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €10–29
- Website
- https://citylines.eu/
- Phone
- +389 47 231 192
- [email protected]
- Website
- transkop.mk
Bus from Sofia to Kumanovo
- Ave. Duration
- 5h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €16–25
- Schedules at
- transkop.mk
- Phone
- +389 75 209 209
- [email protected]
- Website
- hakbus.org
Bus from Kumanovo to Terni - Bus Terminal
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 1m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €110
- Website
- https://www.hakbus.org/
- Phone
- +355 68 391 1009
- [email protected]
- Website
- nelatours.com
Bus from Sofia Central Bus Station to Tirana
- Ave. Duration
- 11h
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- €45
- Schedules at
- nelatravel.site
- Phone
- +355696383030
- Website
- firenzelines.com
Busferry from Tirana to Anagnina
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 55m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €100
- Schedules at
- firenzelines.com
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