On the occasion of the 140th anniversary of the Orient-Express, Europe’s first transcontinental train, which has remained in everyone’s memory since its creation, the Orient Express endowment fund presents at the Villa Medici an anniversary tour of the exhibition exposed in 2021 during the Rencontres in Arles . Composed of archival photographs of the former Compagnie internationale des wagons-lits, this 2nd part invites the photographer Sarah Moon to take a contemporary look at the Orient-Express, a technical object that has become a cultural icon. The exhibition also retraces this mythical epic with a new section dedicated to the Rome-Express, commissioned in 1883 and covering the 1446 kilometers which separate Paris from Rome, along the French Riviera then those of the west and Italian Levant.
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