Spagna is an underground station on Line A of the

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, in the ''

rione A (; plural: ) is a neighbourhood in several Italian cities. A is a territorial subdivision. The larger administrative subdivisions in Rome are the , with the being used only in the historic centre. The word derives from the Latin , the 14 su ...

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, which was inaugurated in 1980. The station is named after the nearby

Piazza di Spagna Piazza di Spagna ("Spanish Square"), at the bottom of the Spanish Steps, is one of the most famous squares in Rome, Italy. It owes its name to the Palazzo di Spagna, the seat of the Embassy of Spain to the Holy See. There is also the famed Colum ...

: its main exit is on Vicolo del Bottino, a short stretch of road that leads to the square. Another exit, connected by a series of

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s, is located near

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and the homonymous entrance to

Villa Borghese Villa Borghese or Villa Borghese Pinciana ('Borghese family{{!Borghese villa on the Pincian Hill') is the villa built by the architect Flaminio Ponzio (and, after his death, finished by his assistant Giovanni Vasanzio), developing sketches by Scip ...

History

The Spagna station was built as part of the first section (from Anagnina to

Ottaviano Ottaviano ( nap, Uttajano) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Naples in the Italian region Campania, located about east of Naples and is located in the Vesuvian Area. Ottaviano was in Roman times a hamlet of houses within ...

) of the Line A of the Rome Metro, which came into service in 1980.Formigari, Muscolino, ''op. cit.'', p. 142 The project of an interchange with the future Line D was abandoned in the autumn of 2012. On 23 March 2019, after that

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was impounded for a problem with the escalators, Spagna was also closed. The closure lasted about a month and a half: in fact, the station reopened to the public at 6 pm on 7 May 2019.

Services

This station has: * Parking at Villa Borghese * Escalators * Elevators * Ticket office * Ticket machine

Interchanges

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bus stop

Located nearby

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* Via dei Condotti * Spanish Embassy to the Holy See *De La Ville Hotel Intercontinental *

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* Santa Maria in Via *

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External links

Spagna station on the Rome public transport site (in Italian)
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