Porta Metronia (Rome Metro)

Porta Metronia, previously known with the name Amba Aradam-Ipponio, is an underground station under construction of Line C of the Rome Metro. The station will be located between two important interchanges of the Roman metro system – the station Fori Imperali-Colosseo (Line B) and San Giovanni (Line A). Construction works started in 2013. The station is expected to become operational with the inauguration of the extension of Line C from San Giovanni to Fori Imperiali-Colosseo in 2024.[1]

Porta Metronia
General information
Coordinates41°52′59″N 12°30′10″E
Owned byATAC
Construction
Structure typeunderground
History
Opening2024 (2024)

During excavation of the station in 2016, a Roman barracks dating back to the 2nd century AD was unearthed 9 metres (30 ft) below street level.[2]

In the summer of 2020, in the wake of the protests triggered by the Black Lives Matter movement, Mayor Virginia Raggi proposed a record in the Capitoline Assembly, which was later approved, to name the station after the Italian-Somali partisan Giorgio Marincola.[3][4] Amba Aradam was the site of the decisive and gruesome Battle of Amba Aradam of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, followed by a massacre of Ethiopian troops.[5] On September 14, 2022, it was announced that the new name of the station would be "Porta Metronia", from the nearby namesake gate in the Aurelian Walls.[6]

References
  1. "Metro C Roma, slitta ancora al 2022 la consegna delle stazioni Amba Aradam e Fori" (in Italian). La Repubblica. August 5, 2016. Archived from the original on September 23, 2016. Retrieved September 22, 2016.
  2. "Italy unearths huge Roman barracks during Rome metro dig". BBC News. May 17, 2016. Archived from the original on May 21, 2016. Retrieved May 20, 2016.
  3. Rory Cappelli (1 August 2020). "Raggi: "La fermata Amba Aradam della Metro C sarà intitola a Giorgio Marincola"". la Repubblica (in Italian). Archived from the original on 8 December 2021. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
  4. "Roma, stazione metro intitolata al partigiano Giorgio Marincola: sì dell'assemblea capitolina". la Repubblica (in Italian). 4 August 2020. Archived from the original on 23 January 2021. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
  5. Neue Zürcher Zeitung 08.08.20 Ambaradm – italiens Geschichte ist ein Durcheinander
  6. "Metro C, la stazione di Porta Metronia aprirà nel 2024. Patanè: "Sarà la più bella mai esistita"" (in Italian). Retrieved 19 October 2022.
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