Colosseo is a station on Line B

Line B (Rome Metro)

Line B is a metro line serving Rome, Italy, and part of the Rome Metro. Despite its name, Line B was the first line to be built in the city. It crosses Rome diagonally from north-east, starting at Rebibbia station, to south, terminating at Laurentina, in the EUR district. It crosses line A at...

 of the Rome Metro

Rome Metro

The Rome Metro is an underground public transportation system that operates in Rome, Italy and opened in 1955. There are currently two metro lines, the A line and the B line . A third line, the green C line, and a new branch of the B line, are currently under construction. Plans have also been...

. It was opened on 10 February 1955 and is located, as its name suggests, in the Monti

Monti (rione of Rome)

Monti is the name of one of the twelve Rioni of Rome, rione I. The name literally means mountains in Italian and comes from the fact that the Esquiline and the Viminal Hills, and parts of the Quirinal and the Caelian Hills belonged to this rione...

 rione on via del Colosseo near the Colosseum

Colosseum

The Colosseum, or the Coliseum, originally the Flavian Amphitheatre , is an elliptical amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy, the largest ever built in the Roman Empire...

. The station is currently involved in the works preparing for the Metro's Line C

Line C (Rome Metro)

Line C will be the third line of the metro system of Rome, Italy. It will be the first fully automated line in the city.The line is currently under construction, and the first part is scheduled to open by June 2012...

.

Its atrium houses mosaics from the Artemetro Roma Prize. They are by Pietro Dorazio (Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

), Kenneth Noland

Kenneth Noland

Kenneth Noland was an American abstract painter. He was one of the best-known American Color field painters, although in the 1950s he was thought of as an abstract expressionist and in the early 1960s he was thought of as a minimalist painter. Noland helped establish the Washington Color School...

 (USA) and Emil Schumacher

Emil Schumacher

Emil Schumacher German painter, important representative of abstract expressionism in post-war Germany....

 (Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

)http://www.atac.roma.it/linee/m_linee.asp?p=1&i=6&NUM=MBA&st=90037. The main exit is on the lower level, in front of the Colosseum

Colosseum

The Colosseum, or the Coliseum, originally the Flavian Amphitheatre , is an elliptical amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy, the largest ever built in the Roman Empire...

 and to the right of the Arch of Constantine

Arch of Constantine

The Arch of Constantine is a triumphal arch in Rome, situated between the Colosseum and the Palatine Hill. It was erected to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Battle of Milvian Bridge on October 28, 312...

, whilst its other exit is on largo Agnesi towards San Pietro in Vincoli

San Pietro in Vincoli

San Pietro in Vincoli is a Roman Catholic titular church and minor basilica in Rome, Italy, best known for being the home of Michelangelo's statue of Moses, part of the tomb of Pope Julius II.-History:...

 and is up on a second level.

Surroundings

• Domus Aurea
  Domus Aurea
  The Domus Aurea was a large landscaped portico villa, designed to take advantage of artificially created landscapes built in the heart of Ancient Rome by the Emperor Nero after the Great Fire of Rome had cleared away the aristocratic dwellings on the slopes of the Palatine...
  
  
• Basilica of Maxentius
  Basilica of Maxentius
  The Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine is an ancient building in the Roman Forum, Rome, Italy...
  
  
• Parco del Celio
  Caelian Hill
  The Caelian Hill is one of the famous Seven Hills of Rome. Under reign of Tullus Hostilius, the entire population of Alba Longa was forcibly resettled on the Caelian Hill...
  
  
• Ospedale militare
  Military hospital
  Military hospital is a hospital, which is generally located on a military base and is reserved for the use of military personnel, their dependents or other authorized users....
  
   del Celio

Churches

• San Pietro in Vincoli
  San Pietro in Vincoli
  San Pietro in Vincoli is a Roman Catholic titular church and minor basilica in Rome, Italy, best known for being the home of Michelangelo's statue of Moses, part of the tomb of Pope Julius II.-History:...
  
  
• Santo Stefano Rotondo
  Santo Stefano Rotondo
  The Basilica of St. Stephen in the Round on the Celian Hill is an ancient basilica and titular church in Rome, Italy. Commonly named Santo Stefano Rotondo, the church is the National church in Rome of Hungary dedicated to Saint Stephen and Saint Stephen of Hungary...
  
  
• Santi Giovanni e Paolo
  Santi Giovanni e Paolo
  There are a number of churches in Italy named after the martyrs St. John and St. Paul , not the apostles, but two soldiers martyred for their faith in the years 361-363...
  
  
• Santi Quattro Coronati
  Santi Quattro Coronati
  Santi Quattro Coronati is an ancient basilica in Rome, Italy. The church dates back to the 4th century, and is devoted to four anonymous saints and martyrs. The complex of the basilica with its two courtyards, the fortified Cardinal Palace with the St...
  
  
• Basilica di San Clemente
  Basilica di San Clemente
  The Basilica of Saint Clement is a Roman Catholic minor basilica dedicated to Pope Clement I located in Rome, Italy. Archaeologically speaking, the structure is a three-tiered complex of buildings: the present basilica built just before the year 1100 during the height of the Middle Ages; beneath...
  
  

Forums

• Roman Forum
  Roman Forum
  The Roman Forum is a rectangular forum surrounded by the ruins of several important ancient government buildings at the center of the city of Rome. Citizens of the ancient city referred to this space, originally a marketplace, as the Forum Magnum, or simply the Forum...
  
  
• Imperial fora
  • Forum of Augustus
    Forum of Augustus
    The Forum of Augustus is one of the Imperial forums of Rome, Italy, built by Augustus. It includes the Temple of Mars Ultor.-History:The triumvir Octavian vowed to build a temple honoring Mars, the Roman God of War, during the battle of Philippi in 42 BC...
    
    
  • Forum of Caesar
    Forum of Caesar
    The Forum of Caesar, also known as Forum Iulium or Forum Julium, Forum Caesaris, is a forum built by Julius Caesar near the Forum Romanum in Rome in 46 BC.-Construction:...
    
    
  • Forum of Nerva
  • Forum of Trajan

External links

• The station on the site of ATAC
  ATAC
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