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 This entrance has outdated signage indicating that the A Line only travels between Anagnina and Ottaviano, a sign dating to before 2000.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 This entrance has outdated signage indicating that the A Line only travels between Anagnina and Ottaviano, a sign dating to before 2000.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 BorgheseVilla 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...
- Palazzo MontecitorioPalazzo MontecitorioThe Palazzo Montecitorio is a palace in Rome and the seat of the Italian Chamber of Deputies.- History :The building was originally designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini for the young Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi, nephew of Pope Gregory XV...
- Palazzo ChigiPalazzo ChigiThe Palazzo Chigi is a palace or noble residence in Rome, overlooking the Piazza Colonna and the Via del Corso. It was begun in 1562 by Giacomo della Porta and completed by Carlo Maderno in 1580 for the Aldobrandini family. In 1659 it was purchased by the Chigi family. It was then remodelled by...
- Column of Marcus AureliusColumn of Marcus AureliusThe Column of Marcus Aurelius is a Roman victory column in Piazza Colonna, Rome, Italy. It is a Doric column featuring a spiral relief: it was built in honour of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and modeled on Trajan's Column.- Construction :...
- Galleria Alberto SordiGalleria Alberto SordiGalleria Alberto Sordi, until 2003 Galleria Colonna, is a shopping arcade in Rome named after the actor Alberto Sordi.On the Via del Corso, it was constructed, as Galleria Colonna , in 1914 on the site of Palazzo Piombino. The building is in the Art Nouveau style....
- Via del CorsoVia del CorsoThe Via del Corso , commonly known as the Corso, is a main street in the historical centre of Rome. It is remarkable for being absolutely straight in an area characterized by narrow meandering alleys and small piazzas...
- Santa Maria in ViaSanta Maria in ViaSanta Maria in Via is a basilica church in Rome. The church was already built in the 9th century, but was rebuilt in occasion of a miracle to host an icon.A church or a chapel was present in the same place in the 9th century...
- Palazzo BorghesePalazzo BorghesePalazzo Borghese is a palace in Rome, Italy, the main seat of the Borghese family in. It was nicknamed il Cembalo due to its unusual trazezoidal groundplan; its shortest front faces the River Tiber...
- Ara PacisAra PacisThe Ara Pacis Augustae is an altar to Peace, envisioned as a Roman goddess...
- Mausoleum of AugustusMausoleum of AugustusThe Mausoleum of Augustus is a large tomb built by the Roman Emperor Augustus in 28 BC on the Campus Martius in Rome, Italy. The Mausoleum, now located on the Piazza Augusto Imperatore, is no longer open to tourists, and the ravages of time and carelessness have stripped the ruins bare...