Porta Metronia, previously known with the name Amba Aradam-Ipponio, is an underground station under construction 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. The station is expected to become operational with the inauguration of the extension of Line C from San Giovanni to Fori Imperiali-Colosseo in 2024.[1]
Porta Metronia | |
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 Construction site | |
| General information | |
| Coordinates | 41°52′59″N 12°30′10″E / 41.8831°N 12.5027°E |
| Owned by | ATAC |
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| Construction | |
| Structure type | underground |
| History | |
| Opening | 2024 |
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.[2]
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.[3][4] 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.[5] 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.[6]
References
edit- ^ "Metro C Roma, slitta ancora al 2022 la consegna delle stazioni Amba Aradam e Fori" (in Italian). La Repubblica. August 5, 2016. Archived from the original on September 23, 2016. Retrieved September 22, 2016.
- ^ "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.
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