Monte Compatri-Pantano is the eastern terminus of Line C of the

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. It is located in Pantano (a ''

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'' of the ''

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'' of

Monte Compatri Monte Compatri () is a '' comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Rome in the Italian region Latium, located about southeast of Rome on the Alban Hills. It is one of the Castelli Romani. History Monte Compatri has been identified w ...

), along the

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; thus being the only Roman Metro station outside the

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municipality border. The station used to serve as the terminus of the Rome–Pantano railway (the urban section of which now forms the

Rome–Giardinetti railway The Roma–Giardinetti railway is a narrow gauge on-street railway which connects Laziali (a regional train station some from Termini's main concourse) with Giardinetti to the east just past the Grande Raccordo Anulare, Rome's orbital motorway. ...

). The former railway station was closed in 2008 so as to be rebuilt into the terminus of the new Metro line; it re-opened on 9 November 2014.

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