The Eternal City inaugurates two new metro stops, December 16th, 2025

Rome, aka the Eternal City, has just inaugurated two new metro/subway stops on its C line (the other metro lines are A and B).  One stop, Porta Metronia, is located just a hop, skip from our place. 

A rather amazing engineering feat has been undertaken in order to build these new stops which, for the time being, also include the world-famous Coliseum (which also connects to the B line).  Archeological artefacts are on display here and there for the general public/traveller to see.  In Porta Metronia’s case very ancient army barracks have finally seen the light of day... and they may have eternally been buried had it not been for this new metro stop (which also includes a museum).   And the time it takes with the metro from Porta Metronia to the Coliseum? About three minutes. 

 
On hand for the official inauguration were Rome’s mayor Roberto Gualtieri, Italy’s transportation minister Matteo Salvini and his cultural heritage colleague Alessandro Giuli.   And the next metro stop on the list is the central Piazza Venezia area which is located just a few hundred meters from the Coliseum metro stop.