Basilica San Paolo (Rome Metro)

Basilica San Paolo
Coordinates	41°51′22″N 12°28′41.5″E / 41.85611°N 12.478194°E / 41.85611; 12.478194Coordinates: 41°51′22″N 12°28′41.5″E / 41.85611°N 12.478194°E / 41.85611; 12.478194
Owned by	Atac di Roma
Line(s)	Rome–Lido railway
Construction
Structure type	Aboveground
History
Opened	1955
Services
Preceding station   Rome Metro   Following station Marconi toward Laurentina Line B Garbatella toward Jonio or Rebibbia

Basilica San Paolo is a station on the Line B of the Rome Metro. It was opened in 1955 and is located behind the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls (after which it is named) in the Ostiense quarter. It is also one of three Metro stations also served by the Rome-Lido railway line.

Before reaching the station the line, in the Porta San Paolo direction, runs through a 230m gorge excavated in the 1920s from the "Roccia di San Paolo" to avoid interfering with the landscape, rather than the original plan which ran the line around the "roccia" but ran it right alongside the basilica.

Surroundings

• Parco Schuster Ildefonso
• Garbatella
• Tiber
• University of Rome III
• Vasca Navale
• Ospedale CTO Andrea Alesini

Streets

• via delle Sette Chiese
• Lungotevere di San Paolo
• Ponte Marconi

Sports venues

• former Cinodromo
• Stadio degli eucalipti

Gallery

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  One of the entrances

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  Basilica San Paolo

External links

Media related to Metropolitana di Roma linea B - San Paolo Basilica at Wikimedia Commons

• http://www.atac.roma.it/index.asp?p=1&i=56&o=0&a=4&tpg=9&NUM=FU02A&st=90152