Amba Aradam-Ipponio (Rome Metro)

Amba Aradam-Ipponio
Coordinates	41°52′59″N 12°30′10″E / 41.8831°N 12.5027°E / 41.8831; 12.5027Coordinates: 41°52′59″N 12°30′10″E / 41.8831°N 12.5027°E / 41.8831; 12.5027
Owned by	ATAC
Construction
Structure type	underground
History
Opening	2024

Amba Aradam-Ipponio is an underground station under construction of Line C of the Rome Metro. The station will be located between two important interchanges of the Roman metro system – the station Fori Imperali-Colosseo (Line B) and San Giovanni (Line A). Construction works started in 2013. The station is expected to become operational with the inauguration of the extension of Line C from San Giovanni to Fori Imperiali-Colosseo in 2024.^[1]

During excavation of the station in 2016, a Roman barracks dating back to the 2nd century AD was unearthed 9 metres (30 ft) below street level.^[2]

In the summer of 2020, in the wake of the protests triggered by the Black Lives Matter movement, Mayor Virginia Raggi proposed a record in the Capitoline Assembly, which was later approved, to name the station after the Italian-Somali partisan Giorgio Marincola^[3][4] which, however, was not followed by any official act. Amba Aradam was the site of the decisive and gruesome Battle of Amba Aradam of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, followed by a massacre of Ethiopian troops.^[5]

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