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