Fiumicino Aeroporto railway station, or Fiumicino Airport railway station ( it, Stazione di Fiumicino Aeroporto), is sited within the
Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport
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People
Notable people with the name include:
* Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), Italian Renaissance scientist ...
( it, Aeroporto Leonardo da Vinci di Fiumicino) (
IATA code
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: FCO) in
Fiumicino
Fiumicino () is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, central Italy, with a population of 80,500 (2019). It is known for being the site of Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport, the busiest airport in Italy and the eleventh-bu ...
, Lazio,
central Italy
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Regions
Central It ...
. Opened in 1990, the station is the southwestern terminus of the
Rome–Fiumicino railway
The Rome–Fiumicino railway is an urban railway line in Rome.
History
The railway link between Rome and Fiumicino was officially opened on 6 May 1878, when a branch of the Livorno–Rome railway (also called the ''ferrovia Tirrenica''—"Tyrrhen ...
.
The airport and station are also known as Rome-Fiumicino Airport ( it, Aeroporto di Roma-Fiumicino), because the airport is the main airport for
Rome
, established_title = Founded
, established_date = 753 BC
, founder = King Romulus (legendary)
, image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg
, map_caption ...
.
The station is managed by
Rete Ferroviaria Italiana
Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI) is the Italian railway infrastructure manager, subsidiary of Ferrovie dello Stato (FS), a state-owned holding company. RFI is the owner of Italy's railway network, it provides signalling, maintenance and other ser ...
(RFI). Train services are operated by
Trenitalia
Trenitalia is the primary train operator in Italy. A subsidiary of Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane, itself owned by the Italian government, the company was established in 2000 following a European Union directive on the deregulation of rail transp ...
. Each company is a subsidiary of
Ferrovie dello Stato
Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane S.p.A. ( "Italian Railways of the State"; previously only Ferrovie dello Stato, hence the abbreviation FS) is Italy's national state-owned railway holding company that manages transport, infrastructure, real estat ...
(FS), Italy's state-owned rail company.
RFI classifies the station as category "Gold".
Location
Fiumicino Aeroporto railway station is situated at Via Generale Felice Santini 11–14, directly opposite Terminal 1.
Features
The station has a passenger building and train hall that houses the platforms and ticket machines.
It is equipped with three platforms, all of them for passenger service.
Train movements
The
Leonardo Express
The Leonardo Express is an airport rail service linking the center of Rome with its largest airport, Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport, in the region of Lazio, central Italy.
The service is operated by Trenitalia, and takes 32 minutes to trav ...
is a first-class only non-stop service linking Fiumicino Aeroporto with
Roma Termini railway station
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in approximately 30 minutes. It operates every 15 minutes from early morning until late evening.
Frequent
regional trains
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link Fiumicino Aeroporto with destinations in Latium north of Rome, including
Fara Sabina
Fara in Sabina, also spelled Fara Sabina, is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Lazio, located about northeast of Rome and about southwest of Rieti.
History
The area was inhabited in prehistoric times, as ...
,
Poggio Mirteto
Poggio Mirteto is a ''comune'' (municipality) and former Catholic bishopric in Sabina in the Central Italian region Lazio (Latium). Administratively Poggio Mirteto is in the province of Rieti (formerly part of the province of Perugia) and geogra ...
and
Orte
Orte is a town, ''comune'', former Catholic bishopric and Latin titular see in the province of Viterbo, in the central Italian region of Lazio, located about north of Rome and about east of Viterbo.
Geography
Orte is situated in the Tiber vall ...
(terminus station for this line). The station is also the terminus of the
Ferrovie regionali del Lazio FR1 commuter service from Orte. These trains stop at all the stations along the way, including important Roman Stations as
Roma Trastevere,
Roma Ostiense
Roma Ostiense is a railway station in Piazza dei Partigiani serving the Ostiense district of Rome, Italy, a short distance from the Porta San Paolo. It is run by the Rete Ferroviaria Italiana arm of the Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane group and the ...
and
Roma Tiburtina. While from last two it is possible to commute to the
Linea B subway line, in Roma Trastevere the Tram 8 (with one terminus at
Largo di Torre Argentina
Largo di Torre Argentina is a square in Rome, Italy, with four Roman Republican temples and the remains of Pompey's Theatre. It is in the ancient Campus Martius.
The name of the square comes from the ''Torre Argentina'', which takes its name fro ...
) provides a fast connection with
Trastevere
Trastevere () is the 13th ''rione'' of Rome: it is identified by the initials R. XIII and it is located within Municipio I. Its name comes from Latin ''trans Tiberim'', literally 'beyond the Tiber'.
Its coat of arms depicts a golden head of a lio ...
and the heart of the city center.
During business hours on workdays a train every 15 minutes arrives to Fara Sabina: of these, a train every 30 minutes reaches Poggio Mirteto, and from this station a train every hour arrives to Orte.
The station is also served by direct
Frecciargento
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and
Frecciarossa
''Frecciarossa'' is a high-speed train of the Italian national train operator, Trenitalia, and a member of the train category Le Frecce. The name, which, if spelled "Freccia rossa" means "Red arrow" in English, was introduced in 2008 after i ...
services to destinations such as
Florence
Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilancio demografico an ...
,
Bologna
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and
Venice
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See also
*
FL1 (Lazio regional railways)
The FL1 (until 2012 FR1) is a regional rail route forming part of the Lazio regional railways network ( it, ferrovie regionali del Lazio), which is operated by Trenitalia, and converges on the city of Rome, Italy.
The route operates over the in ...
*
History of rail transport in Italy
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*
List of railway stations in Lazio
This is the list of the railway stations in Lazio owned by:
* Rete Ferroviaria Italiana, a branch of the Italian state company Ferrovie dello Stato;
* ATAC SpA.
RFI stations
ATAC stations
See also
*Railway stations in Italy
*Ferrovie dell ...
*
Rail transport in Italy
The Italian railway system is one of the most important parts of the infrastructure of Italy, with a total length of of which active lines are 16,723 km. The network has recently grown with the construction of the new high-speed rail netw ...
*
Railway stations in Italy
Most railway stations in Italy are maintained and operated by RFI, a subsidiary of Ferrovie dello Stato Group. A minor part of them are operated by private and regional companies, conceded by the state. See also: :it:Ferrovie in concessione
...
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