Castro Pretorio is a station on Line B of the

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. It was opened on 8 December 1990 and is located on Viale Castro Pretorio, at its junction with Via

San Martino della Battaglia Desenzano del Garda () is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy, Italy, on the southwestern shore of Lake Garda. It borders the communes of Castiglione delle Stiviere, Lonato, Padenghe sul Garda, and Sirmione. History Th ...

, in the

Castro Pretorio Castro Pretorio is the 18th ''rione'' of Rome, Italy, identified by the initials R. XVIII, and it is located within the Municipio I. The ''rione'' takes its name by the ruins of the '' Castrum Praetorium'', the barracks of the Praetorian Guard, i ...

rione. Its exit overlooks the ''Castra Praetoria'' (the camp of the

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), now the site of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale.

Surroundings

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(''Rome National central Library'') * ''

Castra praetoria Castra Praetoria were the ancient barracks (''castra'') of the Praetorian Guard of Imperial Rome. History According to the Roman historian Tacitus, the barracks were built in 23 AD by Sejanus, Lucius Aelius Sejanus, the praetorian prefect servi ...

'' *

Porta Pia Porta Pia was one of the northern gates in the Aurelian Walls of Rome, Italy. One of Pope Pius IV's civic improvements to the city, it is named after him. Situated at the end of a new street, the Via Pia, it was designed by Michelangelo to rep ...

Porta Nomentana The Porta Nomentana was one of the gates in the Aurelian Walls of Rome, Italy. It is located along viale del Policlinico, around 70 m east of Porta Pia. It is now blocked and merely a boundary wall for the British Embassy. History It was ...

** Arch of Sixtus V * Piazza dell'Indipendenza * Piazza della Croce Rossa **

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(main HQ) **

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Group (main HQ) *

quartiere San Lorenzo San Lorenzo is an urban zone in Rome, Italy. Administratively it was part of both Municipio II and Quarter VI Tiburtino. It occupies roughly the two sides of the early stretch of Via Tiburtina, starting from Termini railway station and ending ...

* Città Universitaria

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The station on the site of

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. Rome Metro Line B stations Rome R. XVIII Castro Pretorio Railway stations in Italy opened in 1990 {{Rome-metro-stub