Spagna (Rome Metro)
Spagna is an underground station on Line A of the Rome Metro, in the rione Campo Marzio, which was inaugurated in 1980.
Coordinates | 41°54′23.4″N 12°28′59″E | ||||||||||
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Owned by | ATAC | ||||||||||
Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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Structure type | Underground | ||||||||||
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Opened | 1980 | ||||||||||
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The station is named after the nearby Piazza di Spagna: its main exit is on Vicolo del Bottino, a short stretch of road that leads to the square. Another exit, connected by a series of moving walkways, is located near Porta Pinciana and the homonymous entrance to Villa Borghese.
History
The Spagna station was built as part of the first section (from Anagnina to Ottaviano) of the Line A of the Rome Metro,[1] which came into service in 1980.[2]
The project of an interchange with the future Line D was abandoned in the autumn of 2012.
On 23 March 2019, after that Barberini was impounded for a problem with the escalators, Spagna was also closed. The closure lasted about a month and a half: in fact, the station reopened to the public at 6 pm on 7 May 2019.
Services
This station has:
- Parking at Villa Borghese
- Escalators
- Elevators
- Ticket office
- Ticket machine
Interchanges
- ATAC bus stop
Located nearby
- Piazza di Spagna/Spanish Steps
- Via del Babuino
- Via dei Condotti
- Spanish Embassy to the Holy See
- De La Ville Hotel Intercontinental
- Trinità dei Monti
- Sallustiano Obelisk
- Colonna dell'Immacolata
- Palazzo di Propaganda Fide
- Keats–Shelley Memorial House
- Villa Medici
- Villa Borghese
- Pincio
- Piazza Colonna
- Palazzo Montecitorio
- Palazzo Chigi
- Column of Marcus Aurelius
- Galleria Alberto Sordi
- Via del Corso
- Santa Maria in Via
- Palazzo Borghese
- Ara Pacis
- Mausoleum of Augustus
References
- Formigari, Muscolino,op. cit., p. 133
- Formigari, Muscolino, op. cit., p. 142
Bibliography
External links
Media related to Metropolitana di Roma linea A - Spagna at Wikimedia Commons