Roma Ostiense is a

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in Piazza dei Partigiani serving the

Ostiense Ostiense is the 10th ''quartiere'' of Rome, identified by the initials Q. X. The toponym comes from the original name of the Porta San Paolo, a gate in the city walls of Rome, was , because it was located at the beginning of Via Ostiense. It no ...

district of

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, a short distance from the

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. It is run by the

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arm of the

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group and the urban rail lines FR1, FR3, and FR5 run through the station. It is linked with the Piramide Metro B station and the Roma Porta San Paolo station on the Rome-Lido railway line.

History

To commemorate the forthcoming visit of

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in 1938, the current Ostiense station was built, replacing an existing rural railway station, with the aim of creating a monumental station to receive the

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. A new road was also built to connect the station with

- this was initially named Via A. Hitler but, after

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, it became Viale delle Cave Ardeatine, as a way of commemorating the victims of Nazi occupation. Hitler's visit to Rome is cinematically recreated in director

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's film ''

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'', who also used archived newsreel footage showing the actual meeting between Hitler,

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, and

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The building

Italian architect

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designed the station. In addition to being built in the architectural style favoured by Hitler, the design of the station's marble facade was almost identical to that of the Italian pavilion at the 1942 Rome World's Fair (a design never fully realised due to the Second World War). The station building was inaugurated on October 28, 1940. The entire facade is made of

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and the entrance is marked by a columned portico. On the right side of the façade is a relief by

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representing the mythical figures of

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and

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. On the left is a fountain built in 1957. A series of black and white floor mosaics (created by Giulio Rosso) illustrate various themes and legends of Rome's history. South of the tracks, the station authority constructed a new section to help Ostiense serve as a terminal station for passengers arriving from

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during the

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, which accumulated a variety of commercial activities. However, following the decline in the number of passengers after the end of the World Cup, the new section was quickly abandoned and the various shops that were housed there began to close. In 2012, the building was converted to a new branch of

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's restaurant/market chain

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The square

The square outside of the station was named Piazzale dei Partigiani after World War II. Now, the square's primary function is a bus terminal and parking facility. Before 1990, however, the piazza was embellished with a well-maintained garden and a now-nonfunctioning fountain that was built in the 1950s as part of the design of the station's architect Roberto Narducci. The fountain was inexplicably excluded from the modernization and renovations for the 1990 World Cup, even though the square was part of the ambitious "Cento Piazze" beautification project. The small palm gardens that surround the parking lot are today occupied by a number of homeless people, asylum seekers, and political refugees. Every Monday and Friday, Red Cross volunteers use the square to distribute food to the city's homeless population, despite protests from the area's residents who say that the organization arbitrarily selected the site.
Report in "Corriere della Sera" 15 October 2006

Services

The station offer the following services: * Aiga ticketpurchase inv

Ticket office * Feature ticket office inv 2

Automatic Ticket Machine * Aiga waitingroom inv

Waiting Room * Aiga toilets inv

Toilets *

Polizia Ferroviaria Offices * Aiga coffeeshop inv

Bar *

Restaurant * Aiga taxi inv

Taxi Stand

Interchanges

Piramide station on Line B on the

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. *

Roma Porta San Paolo station on the Ferrovia Roma-Lido. * Feature suburban buses

3 (Tram Line) - 23 - 30 express - 75 - 77 - 83 - 280 - 715 - 716 - 718 - 719 - 769 - 775 - n716. * Ferrovia_regionale_laziale_FL3

Regional trains of

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Regional train to

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Gallery

Image:Stazione Ostiense 1940.jpg, Image:Q10 stazione Ostiense binari 1000987.JPG, Image:Q10 - stazione Ostiense 1000520.JPG, Image:Stazione_ostiense.jpg,

References

External links

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Description and pictures of Roma Ostiense railway station
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Railway stations opened in 1940 Rome Q. X Ostiense