Repubblica – Teatro dell'Opera (Rome Metro) explained

Repubblica
Style:	Rome Metro
Structure:	Underground
Platform:	1 island platform
Tracks:	2
Owned:	ATAC
Mapframe:	yes
Mapframe-Caption:	Click on the map to see marker
Mapframe-Zoom:	13
Mapframe-Marker:	rail-underground

Repubblica–Teatro dell'Opera is an underground station on Line A of the Rome Metro. The station was inaugurated in 1980 and takes its name from the Piazza della Repubblica underneath which it lies.

Services

This station has:

• Escalators

Located nearby

• Piazza della Repubblica
  • Fontana delle Naiadi
  • Baths of Diocletian
  • Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri
  • National Museum of Rome
  • Temple of Minerva Medica (nymphaeum)
• Teatro Costanzi (Teatro dell'Opera)
  • National Theatre
• Via Nazionale
  • Via Quattro Fontane
  • Viminale
  • Ministry of the Interior
  • Palazzo del Viminale
• Largo Santa Susanna
  • Fontana dell'Acqua Felice o del Mosè
  • Santa Susanna
  • Santa Maria della Vittoria
    • Ecstasy of St Theresa di Bernini
  • San Bernardo alle Terme
• Via XX settembre
  • Ministry of Finance
  • Porta Pia

Incidents

On 23 October 2018, 20 people, mostly fans of the Russian football team CSKA, were injured by a collapsing escalator.^{[1] [2]}

The station was then closed; it reopened on June 26, 2019.^[3]

External links

• Repubblica station on the Rome public transport site (in Italian)

Notes and References

1. News: Russian fans injured as Rome metro escalator gives way . 4 November 2018 . BBC News . 24 October 2018.
2. News: Balmer . Crispian . Russian soccer fans hurt in Rome metro escalator accident . 4 November 2018 . Reuters . 2018-10-23.
3. Web site: Roma, Raggi: "La metro Repubblica riapre mercoledì mattina". Comitati: "Aperte solo 4 scale mobili su 6". 25 June 2019.