Cipro (Rome Metro)

Cipro
The atrium of Cipro station: the showcase with the archeological finds is visible near the centre of the image
Coordinates	41°54′27″N 12°26′51″E / 41.90750°N 12.44750°E / 41.90750; 12.44750Coordinates: 41°54′27″N 12°26′51″E / 41.90750°N 12.44750°E / 41.90750; 12.44750
Owned by	Atac di Roma
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Underground
History
Opened	1999
Services
Preceding station   Rome Metro   Following station Valle Aurelia toward Battistini Line A Ottaviano toward Anagnina

Cipro (formerly, Cipro - Musei Vaticani) is an underground station on Line A of the Rome Metro, inaugurated in 1999. The station is situated between via Cipro and via Angelo Emo.

The name of the station, meaning Cyprus, comes from the name of the street it opens on: The names of several streets in the area remember places and people related to the history of the Republic of Venice and other Repubbliche Marinare.

Archaeology

In the open-air atrium below street level, some archeological finds, found in 1993/94 during the digging of the Ottaviano-Battistini section of Line A, are exhibited. They include a 3rd-century CE sarcophagus in Carrara marble, a funerary ash urn, and some inscriptions; in the neighbourhood, which in ancient times was out of Rome proper, there was a large burial ground, on both sides of Via Triumphalis.

In 1991, the municipality of Rome planned to call the station Mosca (Moscow).^[1] To reciprocate, a Moscow Metro station was named Rimskaya (Roman).^[1]

Services

This station has:

• Access for the disabled
• 277 Park and Ride spaces
• Elevators
• Escalators
• Bus terminus

Located Nearby

• Musei Vaticani
• Piazzale degli Eroi
• Mercato Trionfale
• Ospedale Oftalmico

References

External links

Media related to Metropolitana di Roma linea A - Cipro at Wikimedia Commons

• Cipro station on the Rome public transport site (Italian)