Piramide 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

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. It was opened on 10 February 1955 and is sited on Piazzale Ostiense (across which is the Pyramid of Cestius

Pyramid of Cestius

The Pyramid of Cestius is an ancient pyramid in Rome, Italy, near the Porta San Paolo and the Protestant Cemetery. It stands at a fork between two ancient roads, the Via Ostiensis and another road that ran west to the Tiber along the approximate line of the modern Via della Marmorata...

 that gives the station its name) just outside Porta San Paolo

Porta San Paolo

The Porta San Paolo is one of the southern gates in the 3rd-century Aurelian Walls of Rome, Italy. The Ostiense Museum is housed within in the gatehouse...

, in the Ostiense quarter. Its atrium houses mosaics that have won the Artemetro Roma by Enrico Castellani

Enrico Castellani

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 (Italy

Italy

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) and Beverly Pepper

Beverly Pepper

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 (USA). The station has escalator

Escalator

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Connections

Alongside the Metro station is the Porta San Paolo station on the Ferrovia Roma-Lido. The Stazione Ostiense is connected to the metro station via an underpass - from here run the FR1, FR3 and FR5 mainline services.

Direction of traffic

• Via Marmorata (towards Ponte Sublicio and Trastevere
  Trastevere
  Trastevere is rione XIII of Rome, on the west bank of the Tiber, south of Vatican City. Its name comes from the Latin trans Tiberim, meaning literally "beyond the Tiber". The correct pronunciation is "tras-TEH-ve-ray", with the accent on the second syllable. Its logo is a golden head of a lion on a...
  
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• Viale Aventino (towards il Circo Massimo)
• Via Marco Polo (towards via Cristoforo Colombo
  Via Cristoforo Colombo
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  -EUR and via Cilicia-Appio Latino)
• Via Ostiense (towards the Basilica di San Paolo fuori le mura)

Rioni and quarters

• Rione Testaccio
  Testaccio
  Testaccio is the 20th rione of Rome, deriving its name from Monte Testaccio. In antiquity, much of the Tiber River trade took place here, and the remains of broken clay vessels were stacked creating the artificial Testaccio hill, which today is a source of much archeological evidence as to the...
  
  
• Rioni Ripa
  Ripa
  Ripa is a Latin word, meaning the bank of a river. The word is part of the name of a number of places, mainly in Italy.Ripa may refer to:-People:*Albert de Rippe , Italian lutenist and composer, also known as Alberto da Ripa...
  
   and Aventino
• Rione San Saba
  San Saba (rione of Rome)
  San Saba is the XXI rione of Rome. It was named after the Basilica of San Saba, which lies there....
  
  

Monuments and churches

• Porta San Paolo
  Porta San Paolo
  The Porta San Paolo is one of the southern gates in the 3rd-century Aurelian Walls of Rome, Italy. The Ostiense Museum is housed within in the gatehouse...
  
  
• Protestant Cemetery
  Protestant Cemetery, Rome
  The Protestant Cemetery , now officially called the Cimitero acattolico and often referred to as the Cimitero degli Inglesi is a cemetery in Rome, located near Porta San Paolo alongside the Pyramid of Cestius, a small-scale Egyptian-style pyramid built in 30 BC as a tomb and later incorporated...
  
  
• Monte dei cocci
• Campo Testaccio
  Campo Testaccio
  Campo Testaccio was a multi-use stadium in Rome, Italy. It was initially used as the stadium of A.S. Roma matches. It was replaced by Stadio Nazionale PNF in 1940. The capacity of the stadium was 20,000 spectators.-External links:*...
  
  
• Centrale Montemartini
• Museo ferroviario di Porta San Paolo
• Santa Maria Liberatrice
• Chiesa di Santa Sabina
• Chiesa di San Saba

External links

• Station on the site of ATAC
  ATAC
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  .