Cipro (Rome Metro)

Cipro
Cipro
	The atrium of Cipro station: the showcase with the archeological finds is visible near the centre of the image
General information
Coordinates	41°54′27″N 12°26′51″E / 41.90750°N 12.44750°E
Owned by	ATAC
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Underground
History
Opened	1999; 25 years ago
Services
Location
	Click on the map to see marker

Cipro (formerly Cipro–Musei Vaticani) is an underground station on Line A of the Rome Metro, inaugurated in 1999. The station is situated between Via Cipro and Via Angelo Emo.

Cipro is the Italian name for Cyprus, which the street that the station is on is named after. Several streets in the area are named after places and people related to the history of the Republic of Venice and other Maritime republics.

Archaeology edit

In the open-air atrium below street level, some archeological finds, found in 1993/94 during the digging of the Ottaviano-Battistini section of Line A, are exhibited. They include a 3rd-century CE sarcophagus in Carrara marble, a funerary ash urn, and some inscriptions; in the neighbourhood, which in ancient times was out of Rome proper, there was a large burial ground, on both sides of Via Triumphalis.

In 1991, the municipality of Rome planned to call the station Mosca (Moscow).^[1] To reciprocate, a Moscow Metro station was named Rimskaya (Roman).^[1]