Cipro (formerly ''Cipro–Musei Vaticani'') is an underground station on Line A of the

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, inaugurated in 1999. The station is situated between

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and

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. Cipro is the Italian name for

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, which the street that the station is on is named after. Several streets in the area are named after places and people related to the history of the

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and other

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Archaeology

In the open-air atrium below street level, some archeological finds, found in 1993/94 during the digging of the Ottaviano-Battistini section of Line A, are exhibited. They include a 3rd-century CE

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in Carrara marble, a funerary ash urn, and some inscriptions; in the neighbourhood, which in ancient times was out of Rome proper, there was a large burial ground, on both sides of

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. In 1991, the municipality of Rome planned to call the station ''Mosca'' (Moscow)."Moscow" appeared under Rome
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station was named Rimskaya (Roman).

Services

This station has: * Access for the disabled * 277

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spaces * Elevators * Escalators * Bus terminus

Located Nearby

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* Piazzale degli Eroi * Mercato Trionfale * Ospedale Oftalmico

References

External links

Cipro station on the Rome public transport site
{{Authority control Rome Metro Line A stations Railway stations opened in 1999 1999 establishments in Italy Rome Q. XIV Trionfale Railway stations in Italy opened in the 1990s