Anagnina (Rome Metro)
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Anagnina is a station of Line A of the
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. It is located at the junction between Via Tuscolana and Via Anagnina, close to the depot of Osteria del Curato. The station rises at above sea level.


History

The Anagnina station was built as the south-eastern terminus of the first section of metro Line A, which came into service on 16 February
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.See Formigari and Muscolino, p. 133.


Description

Anagnina is an underground terminal station with two tracks served by two platforms not directly connected to each other. On the floor above that of the platforms there are the ticket offices and a police cage watching the entrance to the station area. Inside the station, the electric locomotive nr. 82 - which belonged to the former railway company of Rome (STEFER) and served on the ''Tranvie dei Castelli Romani'' network - is now preserved as a monument.
The station hall also contains some
mosaics A mosaic is a pattern or image made of small regular or irregular pieces of colored stone, glass or ceramic, held in place by plaster/mortar, and covering a surface. Mosaics are often used as floor and wall decoration, and were particularly pop ...
created for the ''Artemetro Roma'' Prize: the authors are the Italian Luigi Veronesi and Lucio del Pezzo, the Swiss Gottfried Honegger and the Russian Mikhail Koulakov. The mosaics are said to be a success in that they brighten up otherwise sombre spaces.


Located nearby

* Osteria del Curato *
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* La Romanina *
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Ciampino Ciampino () is a city and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, Italy. It was a ''frazione'' of Marino until 1974, when it became a ''comune''; it obtained the city ( it, città) status (being therefore officially known as Città ...
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Services

The station is equipped with a video surveillance system and two exchange parking lots.
It is one of the main transport interchanges with urban and suburban bus lines, managed by
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and
Cotral Cotral SpA (In Italian:''Compagnia Trasporti Lazio'' or Lazio Transport Company) is a limited company which runs suburban and inter-urban public transport services in the Lazio it, Laziale , population_note = , population_blank1_ti ...
respectively; there is also a shuttle that offers a direct connection with the Rome-Ciampino Airport. * Four
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s, with a total of almost 2000 places. * Ticket office * Ticket machine * Bar * Shops * Shuttle to Rome Ciampino Airport * Terminus for regional buses (
COTRAL Cotral SpA (In Italian:''Compagnia Trasporti Lazio'' or Lazio Transport Company) is a limited company which runs suburban and inter-urban public transport services in the Lazio it, Laziale , population_note = , population_blank1_ti ...
) * Urban buses: 20 Express - 046 - 047 - 500 - 502 - 504 - 505 - 506 - 507 - 509 - 515 - 551 - 559 - N1 - N1P


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Station map
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