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Spagna (Rome Metro)
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Spagna is an underground station on Line A of the Rome Metro, which was inaugurated in 1980. It is situated in the Campus Martius
and is named after the nearby Piazza di Spagna.
The station has an entrance near the Villa Borghese at the top of the Spanish Steps. This entrance has outdated signage indicating that the A Line only travels between Anagnina and Ottaviano, a sign dating to before 2000. Another entrance is located up a short back street from the Piazza di Spagna.
Campus Martius
The Campus Martius , was a publicly owned area of ancient Rome about in extent. In the Middle Ages, it was the most populous area of Rome...
and is named after the nearby Piazza di Spagna.
The station has an entrance near the Villa Borghese at the top of the Spanish Steps. This entrance has outdated signage indicating that the A Line only travels between Anagnina and Ottaviano, a sign dating to before 2000. Another entrance is located up a short back street from the Piazza di Spagna.
Services
This station has:- Parking at Villa Borghese
Villa BorgheseVilla Borghese may refer to:*The Villa Borghese Pinciana , the villa built by the architect Flaminio Ponzio , developing sketches by Scipione Borghese, who used it as a villa suburbana, a party villa, at the edge of Rome, and to house his art collection.**The Galleria... - Escalators
- Elevators
Located nearby
- Piazza di Spagna/Spanish StepsSpanish StepsThe Spanish Steps are a set of steps in Rome, Italy, climbing a steep slope between the Piazza di Spagna at the base and Piazza Trinità dei Monti, dominated by the Trinità dei Monti church at the top. The Scalinata is the widest staircase in Europe...
- Via del Babuino
- Via dei Condotti
- Spanish Embassy to the Holy See
- De La Ville Hotel Intercontinental
- Trinità dei MontiTrinità dei MontiThe church of the Santissima Trinità dei Monti is a late Renaissance titular church in Rome, central Italy. It is best known for its commanding position above the Spanish Steps which lead down to the Piazza di Spagna...
- Sallustiano Obelisk
- Colonna dell'Immacolata
- Palazzo di Propaganda FidePalazzo di Propaganda FideThe Palazzo di Propaganda Fide is a palace located in Rome, designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, then Francesco Borromini...
- Museo di Keats e Shelley
- Villa MediciVilla MediciThe Villa Medici is a mannerist villa and an architectural complex with a garden contiguous with the larger Borghese gardens, on the Pincian Hill next to Trinità dei Monti in Rome, Italy. The Villa Medici, founded by Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and now property of the French...
- Villa BorgheseVilla Borghese gardensVilla Borghese is a large landscape garden in the naturalistic English manner in Rome, containing a number of buildings, museums and attractions. It is the second largest public park in Rome after that of the Villa Doria Pamphili...
- Pincio
- Piazza ColonnaPiazza ColonnaPiazza Colonna is a piazza at the center of the Rione of Colonna in the historic heart of Rome, Italy. It is named for the marble Column of Marcus Aurelius which has stood there since 193 CE. The bronze statue of Saint Paul that crowns the column was placed in 1589, by order of Pope Sixtus V...
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