Roma Porta San Paolo is the terminal train station of the

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line in Rome (Italy). The station is connected to the station '' Piramide'' of the

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( line B) and to the

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of the ''

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''. It has six tracks. The edifice houses the ticket office and service structures, as well as a news-stand and a coffee shop. It also includes the

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History

The building of the station was started, together with the one of the railway, at the beginning of 1919, after the inauguration ceremony of December 30, 1918 in the presence of King

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. The station was designed by

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. A quite similar one was the Ostia Nuova terminal train station, whose foundation stone was laid on December 10, 1920, also in the presence of the King, and that was destroyed during the war. The graffiti decorating the interior of the station are works by the Florentine artist Giulio Rosso. The station and the railway line were inaugurated on August 10, 1924 with a special ride, in which

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Pyramid of Cestius The pyramid of Cestius (in Italian language, 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, Rome, Protestant Cemetery. It was built as a t ...

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* Protestant Cemetery
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* Santa Maria Liberatrice
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* San Saba

Services

The station has available the following services: * Feature ticket office

Ticket office * Feature accessible

Accessibility to disabled persons * AB-Autobahnkiosk

Coffee shop * News

News stand * Italian traffic signs - icona museo

Museum

Interchanges

Metro

Piramide station, Line B.

Railway

Buses

Terminus station for

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bus and tram lines *Weekdays and holidays: 77 – 775 *Weekdays only: 769 *Night: n3d – n3s * Feature suburban buses

passing bus lines *Weekdays and holidays: 3 – 23 – 30EX – 75 – 83 – 280 – 715 – 716 – 718 – 719 *Night: nMB – nME – n716

Railway stations opened in 1924