Piramide is a station on Line B of the

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. It was opened on 10 February 1955 and is sited on Piazzale Ostiense (across which is the

Pyramid of Cestius The pyramid of Cestius (in Italian, ''Piramide di Caio Cestio'' or ''Piramide Cestia'') is a Roman Era pyramid in Rome, Italy, near the Porta San Paolo and the Protestant Cemetery. It was built as a tomb for Gaius Cestius, a member of the Epu ...

that gives the station its name) just outside

Porta San Paolo The Porta San Paolo (English: Saint Paul Gate) is one of the southern gates in the 3rd-century Aurelian Walls of Rome, Italy. The Via Ostiense Museum (') is housed within the gatehouse. It is in the Ostiense quarter; just to the west is the Roma ...

, in the Ostiense quarter. Its atrium houses mosaics that have won the Artemetro Roma by

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(Italy) and

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(United States). The station has

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Connections

Alongside the Metro station is the

station on the Ferrovia Roma-Lido. The Stazione Ostiense is connected to the metro station via an underpass - from here run the FR1, FR3 and FR5 mainline services.

Surroundings

*Acea * Stazione di Roma Ostiense *via Marmorata post office

Direction of traffic

*Via Marmorata (towards Ponte Sublicio and Trastevere) *Viale Aventino (towards il Circo Massimo) *Via Marco Polo (towards

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and via Cilicia- Appio Latino) *Via Ostiense (towards the Basilica di San Paolo fuori le mura)

Rioni and quarters

*Rione

Testaccio Testaccio is the 20th ''rione'' of Rome, identified by the initials R. XX, deriving its name from Monte Testaccio. It is located within the Municipio I. Its coat of arms depicts an '' amphora'', referencing to the broken vessels that Monte Te ...

*Rioni Ripa and Aventino *Rione San Saba

Monuments and churches

* Protestant Cemetery *

Monte dei cocci Monte Testaccio (; alternatively spelled Monte Testaceo; also known as Monte dei cocci) is an artificial mound in Rome composed almost entirely of ''testae'' ( it, cocci), fragments of broken ancient Roman pottery, nearly all discarded amphorae d ...

Campo Testaccio Campo Testaccio was a multi-use stadium in Rome, Italy. It was initially used as the stadium of A.S. Roma matches, before the team moves to Stadio Nazionale PNF The Stadio Nazionale del PNF (English: National Stadium of the National Fascist Party ...

Centrale Montemartini The Capitoline Museums (Italian: ''Musei Capitolini'') are a group of art and archaeological museums in Piazza del Campidoglio, on top of the Capitoline Hill in Rome, Italy. The historic seats of the museums are Palazzo dei Conservatori and Pal ...

* Museo ferroviario di Porta San Paolo * Santa Maria Liberatrice * Chiesa di Santa Sabina * Chiesa di San Saba

Gallery

Image:Stazione_di_Piramide1.jpg, The piazzale Image:Stazione Piramide2.jpg, Facade

External links

Station on the site of

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