Porta Metronia (Rome Metro)
Porta Metronia | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Entrance | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°52′59″N 12°30′10″E / 41.8831°N 12.5027°E | ||||||||||
| Owned by | ATAC | ||||||||||
| Line | |||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||
| Structure type | underground | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opening | December 16, 2025 | ||||||||||
| Services | |||||||||||
| |||||||||||
| |||||||||||
Porta Metronia, previously known with the name Amba Aradam-Ipponio, is an underground station of Line C of the Rome Metro. The station will be located between two important interchanges of the Roman metro system – the station Fori Imperali-Colosseo (Line B) and San Giovanni (Line A). Construction works started in 2013 and was completed in 2025.
During excavation of the station in 2016, a Roman barracks dating back to the 2nd century AD was unearthed 9 metres (30 ft) below street level.[1]
In the summer of 2020, in the wake of the protests triggered by the Black Lives Matter movement, Mayor Virginia Raggi proposed a record in the Capitoline Assembly, which was later approved, to name the station after the Italian-Somali partisan Giorgio Marincola.[2][3] Amba Aradam was the site of the decisive and gruesome Battle of Amba Aradam of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, followed by a massacre of Ethiopian troops.[4] On September 14, 2022, it was announced that the new name of the station would be "Porta Metronia", from the nearby namesake gate in the Aurelian Walls.[5]
On 16th December 2025, the station has opened to the public.[6]
References
- ^ "Italy unearths huge Roman barracks during Rome metro dig". BBC News. May 17, 2016. Archived from the original on May 21, 2016. Retrieved May 20, 2016.
- ^ Rory Cappelli (1 August 2020). "Raggi: "La fermata Amba Aradam della Metro C sarà intitola a Giorgio Marincola"". la Repubblica (in Italian). Archived from the original on 8 December 2021. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
- ^ "Roma, stazione metro intitolata al partigiano Giorgio Marincola: sì dell'assemblea capitolina". la Repubblica (in Italian). 4 August 2020. Archived from the original on 23 January 2021. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
- ^ Neue Zürcher Zeitung 08.08.20 Ambaradm – italiens Geschichte ist ein Durcheinander
- ^ "Metro C, la stazione di Porta Metronia aprirà nel 2024. Patanè: "Sarà la più bella mai esistita"" (in Italian). Retrieved 19 October 2022.
- ^ "Metro C, aperte le fermate Colosseo e Porta Metronia". RAI (in Italian). 16 December 2025. Retrieved 16 December 2025.