Renfe has begun this Wednesday to sell train tickets that link Asturias and Cantabria directly with Levante -with the consequent passage and stop in Castilla y León-, after announcing the Government that the high-speed tunnel that crosses Madrid from north to south will be It will go into service on July 1.

As of that day, the trains that connect Oviedo and Gijón with Alicante, Valencia and Castellón can be made without transfer and with a stop in Chamartín, as reported by the company. Likewise, trains originating in Santander and Torrelavega, in Cantabria, will be able to go to Alicante directly with intermediate stops in Valladolid, Palencia, León, Cuenca and Albacete.

The opening of this tunnel will allow an improvement in travel times of about 20 minutes, they estimate, depending on the route and the service.

In addition, Renfe has recovered the service that connected Gijón with Alicante, which had not been running since the start of the health crisis.

As of today, travelers will be able to purchase their tickets through all of Renfe's sales channels, which includes its website, app, station ticket offices, face-to-face travel agencies, online agencies, telephone sales, self-service machines and ticket offices. Post.

This new Adif Alta Velocidad infrastructure has had a total investment of 1,072 million euros and will allow decongesting the traffic entering and leaving Madrid and connecting the high-speed lines in the north of Spain with those in the east and south, thus avoiding transfers in the capital and promoting territorial structuring, collects Ical.