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Conca d'Oro is an underground station on Line B of the Rome Metro. It is located in the Monte Sacro quarter, under the large Piazza Conca d'Oro. The works, which cost €513 million, started in October 2005. [1] The station opened on 13 June 2012 and served as the temporary terminus of the Line B1 until 2015, when Jonio was opened. [2]
It is located on the slope of Monte Caputo, overlooking the very fertile valley called "La Conca d'oro" (the Golden Shell), a production area of orange, olive and almond trees, the produce of which is exported in large quantities. [4]
Palermo lies in a basin, formed by the Papireto, Kemonia and Oreto rivers. The basin was named the Conca d'Oro (the Golden Basin) by the Arabs in the 9th century. The city is surrounded by a mountain range which is named after the city itself. These mountains face the Tyrrhenian Sea.
As of May 2018, the Rome Metro comprises three lines – A, B, and C – which together serve a total of 73 stations (counting Termini, the interchange station between Lines A and B, and San Giovanni, the interchange station between Lines A and C, only once) as listed below.
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.
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The "garden city" endured for just 30 years, since in the 1950s residential buildings took the place of cottages and detached houses. Further expansions took place in the 1960s, in the areas of Tufello and Conca d'Oro, while in the second half of the 1960s, in the area of Talenti, the new quarter of Monte Sacro Alto took shape.
In 1990, Line B was extended from Termini to Rebibbia in the east of the city and the entire line was modernised. A new 4 km (2.5 mi) long branch (B1) was opened connecting Piazza Bologna with Conca d'Oro on 13 June 2012; the branch's last stop (and new terminus), Jonio, was opened on 21 April 2015.