Rome opens new subway stations that includes historical artifacts show

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One of many world's most popular tourist destinations is now providing guests — and commuters — a brand new technique to expertise its historical historical past.

Rome opened two new subway stations, together with one positioned instantly underneath the Colosseum, earlier in December.

What makes the stations distinctive is that ancient artifacts — all uncovered throughout development of the stops — are displayed all through the stations.

The 2 stations, Colosseo-Fori Imperiali and Porta Metronia, characteristic a wide range of historic objects.

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<source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcset="https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2025/12/343/192/italy-rome-colosseum-new-artifacts-museum-display-archaeology-ancient-history-1.jpg?ve=1&tl=1, https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2025/12/686/384/italy-rome-colosseum-new-artifacts-museum-display-archaeology-ancient-history-1.jpg?ve=1&tl=1 2x" height="192" width="343"><source media="(min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1023px)" srcset="https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2025/12/672/378/italy-rome-colosseum-new-artifacts-museum-display-archaeology-ancient-history-1.jpg?ve=1&tl=1, https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2025/12/1344/756/italy-rome-colosseum-new-artifacts-museum-display-archaeology-ancient-history-1.jpg?ve=1&tl=1 2x" height="378" width="672"><source media="(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)" srcset="https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2025/12/931/523/italy-rome-colosseum-new-artifacts-museum-display-archaeology-ancient-history-1.jpg?ve=1&tl=1, https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2025/12/1862/1046/italy-rome-colosseum-new-artifacts-museum-display-archaeology-ancient-history-1.jpg?ve=1&tl=1 2x" height="523" width="931"><source media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2025/12/720/405/italy-rome-colosseum-new-artifacts-museum-display-archaeology-ancient-history-1.jpg?ve=1&tl=1, https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2025/12/1440/810/italy-rome-colosseum-new-artifacts-museum-display-archaeology-ancient-history-1.jpg?ve=1&tl=1 2x" height="405" width="720"> Newly opened subway stations in Rome characteristic historical artifacts uncovered throughout development beneath historic landmarks. (AP Picture/Alessandra Tarantino)

Colosseo's shows embody ceramic vases and plates, stone wells and historical suspended buckets, together with a chilly plunge pool and thermal bathtub from a first-century dwelling.

Porta Metronia, only a stone's throw away, options practically 260-foot-long army barracks courting again to the second century AD.

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Simona Moretta, the scientific director of the excavation, instructed reporters that the barracks have been discovered between 22 and 39 toes beneath the bottom. The troopers stationed there have been probably employed to guard the town or the emperor particularly.

"Surety that it was a army constructing is given by the truth that the entrances to the rooms should not going through one another, however are offset, in order that the troopers might go away the rooms and get in line with out colliding within the hall," she stated.

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The stops are a part of the Metro C subway line, a enterprise that may value the town round $8.3 billion and is slated to completely open up in 2035.

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Officers anticipate that, as soon as accomplished, Line C will carry as much as 800,000 passengers each day. It is projected to run 18 miles in complete, 12 of which shall be underground.

The subway line will ultimately run beneath Roman landmarks together with Trajan's Column, the Basilica of Maxentius and the Vatican, along with Renaissance palaces.

"The problem was ... constructing it underneath such a lot of groundwater and on the identical time preserving all of the archaeological finds that we discovered."

Although the mission has been slowed by bureaucratic delays and funding points, the excavation has revealed greater than 500,000 artifacts.

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Marco Cervone, development supervisor for the consortium constructing the subway line, instructed The Related Press that the terrain made the enterprise tough.

"The problem was ... constructing it underneath such a lot of groundwater and on the identical time preserving all of the archaeological finds that we discovered throughout the excavation, and all this whereas preserving every little thing that's above," Cervone stated.

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The station openings come as Italian officers introduce new measures to handle tourism within the Everlasting Metropolis.

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In December, officers introduced that vacationers visiting the Trevi Fountain might want to pay about $2.35, or €2, to see the fountain up-close, because of overcrowding in recent times.