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 ( lmo, label=Brescian, Dezensà) 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 Gard ...

, 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, ...

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

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), now the site of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale.

Surroundings

* Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma * '' Castra praetoria'' *

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** 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 a ...

* Città Universitaria

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The station on the site of

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. Rome Metro Line B stations Railway stations opened in 1990 1990 establishments in Italy Rome R. XVIII Castro Pretorio Railway stations in Italy opened in the 20th century {{Rome-metro-stub