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Have you ever thought of visiting Rome by metro?

It can be done! Around the metro stations, you can find many attractions to visit, why not take advantage of them ?!

Rome and the subway

The Rome metro is the second line in Italy by extension. It is divided into three lines, A-B-C, which connect the city from one side to the other. Lines A and B intersect at Termini Station, while line C intersects A at the recently inaugurated San Giovanni stop.

Visit Rome by metro

Visiting Rome by metro is an alternative way to enjoy the Eternal City, using only one means of transport, therefore also convenient.
In the metro route you can find countless points of interest that are located right next to the stations, so they are easily reachable on foot.

The points of interest along line A

Line A (Battistini-Anagnina), mainly crosses the streets of the center of Rome, reaching the south-east area of ​​the capital.

Cyprus: Vatican Museums.

Ottaviano: St. Peter’s Basilica, Church of Santo Spirito in Sassia and Historical Museum of Sanitary Art, Historical Museum of the Carabinieri, Palazzo Giraud-Torlonia.

Lepanto: Piazza Mazzini Fountain, Castel Sant’Angelo, Palace of Justice, Church of San Gioacchino in Prati.

Flaminio: Piazza del Popolo, Santa Maria del Popolo, Pincio Terrace, Villa Borghese and Borghese Gallery, Goethe’s House, Hendrik Christian Andersen Museum, Mausoleum of Augustus, Ara Pacis Museum.

Spain: Church of the Holy Trinity of the Mountains, Fontana della Barcaccia, Villa Medici, Via Margutta, Galleria Sciarra, Pantheon, Piazza Navona, Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II, Campidoglio, Church of Sant’Andrea della Valle, Church of Sant’Ignazio da Loyola .

Barberini: Trevi Fountain, Barberini Palace, Triton Fountain, Bees Fountain, Capuchin Crypt, Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria, National Academy of San Luca, Palazzo Colonna, Boncompagni-Ludovisi Museum.

Republic: Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Diocletian Baths, Fountain of the Naiads, Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri, Porticoes of Piazza Esedra, Palazzo del Quirinale.

Termini: Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, Basilica of Santa Prassede.

Vittorio Emanuele: Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II, Porta Alchemica, Triumphs of Mario, House of Architecture, Arch of Gallienus, National Museum of Oriental Art, Auditorium of Mecenate, Church of Santa Bibiana.

Manzoni: Museum of the Liberation, Hypogeum of the Aureli, Villa Wolkonvsky.

King of Rome: Colombari of via Taranto.

San Giovanni: Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano.

Furio Camillo: Hypogeum Dino Compagni, Villa Lazzaroni.

Colli Albani: Caffarella Park.

Travertine Arch: Tombs of the Via Latina.

Porta Furba-Quadraro: Street art, Roman aqueduct.

Giulio Agricola: Park of the Aqueducts.

Cinecittà: Film Studies.

I punti di interesse lungo la linea B e B1

La linea B (Laurentina-Rebibbia), collega la zona nord-est di Roma, con la zona Sud, passando per alcuni punti centrali della città.

Eur Fermi: Obelisco, Museo dell’Alto Medioevo, Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico L. Pigorini, Palazzo dell’Arte Moderna.

Eur Palasport: Laghetto dell’Eur, Passeggiata del Giappone e Giardino delle Cascate, Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana, Basilica dei Santi Pietro e Paolo, Palazzo degli Uffici e rifugio antiaereo.

Basilica San Paolo: Basilica di San Paolo Fuori le Mura.

Garbatella: Centrale Montemartini, Gasometro.

Piramide: Piramide Cestia, Porta San Paolo, Mattatoio di Roma, Cimitero Acattolico.

Circo Massimo: Circo Massimo, Villa Celimontana, Terme di Caracalla, Roseto Comunale, Giardino degli Aranci, Chiesa di Santa Sabina, Buco della Serratura, Chiesa dei Santi Nereo e Achilleo, Chiesa di Santa Maria in Cosmedin e Bocca della verità, Foro Boario, Chiesa di San Giorgio in Velabro.

Colosseo: Colosseo, Domus Aurea, Tempio del Divo Claudio, Arco di Costantino, Foro Romano, Fori Imperiali, Tempio di Vesta, Palatino, Meta Sudans, Arco di Tito, Chiesa dei Santi Cosma e Damiano, Domus Romane di Palazzo Valentini, Carcere Mamertino, Piazza del Campidoglio e Musei Capitolini, Basilica di San Clemente.

Cavour: Chiesa di San Pietro in Vincoli, Rione Monti, Torre e scalinata dei Borgia, Santa Pudenziana, Torre delle Milizie, Mercati di Traiano, Terme di Traiano.

Castro Pretorio: Mura Aureliane, Biblioteca Nazionale di Roma, Porta Pia, Horti Sallustiani.

Policlinico: Città Universitaria, MACRO, Villa Torlonia.

Points of interest along line B1

Sant’Agnese / Annibaliano: Sant’Agnese fuori le Mura, Mausoleum of Santa Costanza, Santa Emerenziana, Catacombs of Priscilla.

The points of interest along line C.

Line C, recently built, connects the extreme eastern suburbs of Rome with the city center.

Lodi: Aurelian Walls, Basilica of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, Eleniane Baths, National Museum of Musical Instruments.

Pigneto: Street art, Torrione Prenestina Park, Mausoleum of the Gordiani, Villa Gordiani.

Useful info

Atac Rome offers different types of tickets:
BIT: valid for a single metro ride, even on several lines, without leaving the stove;
10-BIT: valid for 100 minutes after the first stamping.
ROME 24H: valid for 24 hours from the first stamping.
ROME 48H: valid for 48 hours from the first stamping.
ROME 72H: valid for 72 hours from the first stamping.
CIS: valid for 7 days from the first stamping.

Have you ever thought of visiting Rome by metro?

For info and contacts: Moving to Rome
Article by Roberta Sulpizio and Arda Lelo

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N.A.DIS. Drawings Archive of Ostia Antica

The Drawings Archive of Ostia Antica, preserves about 14,000 drawings which are largely the result of the intense activity of graphic documentation collected since the nineteenth century

during the first excavation campaigns carried out in Ostia Antica.

The drawings, made with various techniques (pencil, ink, watercolor and tempera) and on multiple supports (paper, cardboard, glossy, radex, acetate, digital, etc.),

in addition to their intrinsic and priceless iconographic content, they illustrate in detail the transformations that have taken place in the techniques of representation

of archaeological design from the nineteenth century to the present day.

Through the Ostiense collection, it is possible to deepen the path that over the years has led the drawing from sometimes pictorial representation of archeology to a scientific document.

An expression capable of methodically conveying all the information necessary for the analysis and study of the monuments of the Ostiense area and their context.

The material, entirely cataloged, includes the graphic documentation relating to the territory of competence of the Ostia office already before the D.M. n. 44 of 23 January 2016

“Reorganization of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism pursuant to art. 1, paragraph 327, of Law no. 208 of 28 December 2015”,

which included Fregene, Fiumicino, Isola Sacra, Dragona, Dragoncello, Acilia, Malafede, Castel Porziano, Ostia, Ostia Antica and the coast up to Pratica di Mare.

There are numerous historical drawings in the inventory, among them the plan (inv. 71, 137×65 cm) made by Pietro Holl in 1804 is considerable,

reference for many of the subsequent elaborations of the excavation area. The topographical plan, with a scale of representation in Roman pipes,

it represents the Ostiensi buildings excavated during the pontificate of Pius VII between 1803 and 1804 with all the adjacent buildings indicated.

N.A.DIS.  Drawings Archive of Ostia Antica nowadays

In the following years, in Ostia Antica, systematic excavation campaigns took place on an urban scale and consequently numerous documents of great interest were made.

(reports, drawings and photographs) with sometimes very accurate contents.

Under the direction of Dante Vaglieri between 1907 and 1913, the relief and graphic documentation of Ostiensi buildings reached a high scientific level and with the work of the architect Italo Gismondi,

during the excavations carried out in anticipation of the Universal Exposition of 1942, the current documentation of the five Regions of the Ostia Excavations will be practically given substance,

subsequently assembled in the “General Plan of Ostia Antica” of 1949.

In this long period, the graphic production of Omero Visca and Giorgio Pascolini was relevant who,

operating throughout the territory, they contributed to expand and enrich the documentary heritage present in the current Archive;

a notable contribution was provided, among others, by Maria Antonietta Ricciardi who updated the “General Plan of Ostia” and took part in the 70s-90s of the twentieth century

to the reorganization and arrangement of the Archive.

In the following years, the rapid scientific and technological progress and the awareness of the potential of the new survey and representation systems,

it made it possible to get to know the characteristics of the Ostiense artefacts under study in an ever more in-depth way; it is in this context that the contribution provided by Giuseppe Tilia is placed,

detector and designer, who has wisely associated the use of traditional systems with the application of the most advanced detection and graphic rendering technologies.

The graphic documentation collected over the years, consisting largely of drawings made on glossy paper, due to time and wear caused by the numerous manipulations,

made these supports fragile, causing an inevitable deterioration process.

To remedy this state of affairs, appropriate conservation and safeguarding solutions were first implemented which today guarantee the good conservation of the assets,

then a digitalization campaign of the drawings was launched, aimed at their consultation even remotely.

With this in mind, already in 1997, a first project was started aimed at the creation of a database in anticipation of the future acquisition and association of images;

but it is starting from 2008 that thanks to adequate resources, it was possible, in a new and more coherent logistic arrangement, to equip the Drawings Archive with the necessary tools (

large format scanners, dedicated servers, etc.) which made it possible to completely review the entire inventory and create a new database

capable of providing all the data necessary for the management of the collection (author, date, location, document format, etc.).

On this occasion, the Office was able to plan and initiate a coherent and systematic restoration campaign for the drawings whose conservation status was more critical.

The current consultation form present here allows the user, directly from the institutional site of the Archaeological Park, by accessing the NADIS,

to query the DB and to verify, through a preview of the image of the drawing in low resolution raster format, the existence or otherwise of what was sought.

For study, publication or other purposes, to obtain high resolution digital copies of the selected files, it is necessary to send a specific request to the Director of the Archaeological Park of Ostia Antica.

The Drawings Archive is open to the public by appointment, from Monday to Friday from 10.00 to 12.00.

Tel. 06.56.35.80.41
E-mail pa-oant.archiviodisegni@beniculturali.it – barbara.roggio@beniculturali.it

Fonte https://www.nadis.it/