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A train of the Roma–Giardinetti line. Officially termed a railway, the Roma–Giardinetti line is a narrow gauge tram which connects Laziali (a smaller, local train station some 800 metres east of Termini's main concourse) with Giardinetti, just past the Grande Raccordo Anulare (GRA) – Rome's orbital motorway.
Despite its name, Line B was the first metro line in Rome. The line was planned during the 1930s by the Fascist government in search of a rapid connection between the main train station, Termini, and a new district to the south-east of the city, E42, the planned location of the Universal Exposition (or Expo), which was to be held in Rome in 1942.
Roma Termini railway station Frecciarossa 1000 high-speed train in Roma Tiburtina station Rome is one of the major hubs of Italian railway network, along with Milan and Bologna. Located in the center of the Italian Peninsula , Rome is the main railway hub in central Italy , connected by high-speed lines with Florence , Bologna , Milan , Turin ...
Major Italian cargo operators are ITA Airways Cargo and Cargolux Italia. Because of its long seacoast, Italy also has many harbors for the transportation of both goods and passengers. In 2004 there were 43 major seaports including the Port of Genoa , the country's largest and the third busiest by cargo tonnage in the Mediterranean Sea .
Line C is a Rome Metro line which runs from Monte Compatri-Pantano in the eastern suburbs of Rome, in Italy, to San Giovanni near the city centre, where it meets Line A. [4] It is the third metro line to be built in the city and the first to be fully automated.
No 8507 at Roma Termini. No 8505 on Via Nomentana, just south of Piazza Sempione. 90 Express Termini station ↔ Largo F. Labia (11.5 km (7 mi)) The section of the route from Termini station to Porta Pia is not electrified by overhead wires, as it was considered that the two-wire overhead lines would have disfigured the city centre streets. On ...
The tunnelling work and connected archaeological discoveries were portrayed in Federico Fellini's film Roma. The line began service in 1980, [3] from Anagnina to Ottaviano and took the name of Line A, while the existing Termini-Laurentina line was called Line B. In the early 1990s, work began on an extension to Line A from Ottaviano to ...
EUR is a residential area and the major business district in Rome, Italy, part of the Municipio IX.. The area was originally chosen in the 1930s as the site for the 1942 World's Fair which Benito Mussolini planned to open to celebrate twenty years of Fascism, the letters EUR standing for Esposizione Universale Roma ("Rome Universal Exposition").