Porto di Mare (Milan Metro)
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Porto di Mare is a station on Line 3 of the Milan Metro
Milan Metro
The Milan Metro is the rapid transit system serving Milan, Italy, operated by Azienda Trasporti Milanesi. Milan metro is the longest metro system in Italy, and is the core of the Milan Transportation System...

 in Milan
Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...

, Italy
Italy
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. The station was inaugurated in 1991. It takes the name from a never-realized project of a fluvial port to reach the Po River
Po River
The Po |Ligurian]]: Bodincus or Bodencus) is a river that flows either or – considering the length of the Maira, a right bank tributary – eastward across northern Italy, from a spring seeping from a stony hillside at Pian del Re, a flat place at the head of the Val Po under the northwest face...

 and consequentially the Adriatic Sea
Adriatic Sea
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.

The station is located in the ancient starting point of the Motorway of the Sun
Autostrada A1 (Italy)
The Autostrada A1, or Autostrada del Sole , is an Italian motorway which connects Milan with Naples via Bologna, Florence and Rome. At 754 km, it is the longest Italian autostrada and is considered the “spinal cord” of the country’s road network...

, which is in the municipality of Milan. This is an underground station with two tracks in a single tunnel.

Services

The station has:
  • Accessibility for physically disabled passengers
  • Lift
    Elevator
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  • Escalator
    Escalator
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