Subway station Manzoni reopens
Manzoni-Museo della Liberazione
After 20 months of reconstruction the line A metro stop Manzoni was reopened yesterday, September 8th, 2007. The stop also has a new name “Manzoni-Museo della Liberazione”.
Archeological station
Manzoni is the first of the so-called “archeological stations”, an antipasto for the future line C Colosseo stop. The archeological finds that have been dug up during the works are displayed behind glass (vitrines) along the tunnels leading to the turnstiles, in such a way that the walls of an opus reticolatum and the remains of an imperial domus can be admired.
The diggings have unearthed the remains of a paved street dating back to the 2nd century before Christ. After Mecenate improved it in 35 b.Chr. the area, formerly unhealthy, became a rich and popular residential quarter.
The new Manzoni is meant as a foretaste of what the underground stations for the future lines C, D e B1 are going to look like.
The modernisation of line A should be finished in April 2008 and from May onwards the line ought to start working again till midnight (instead of only till 9pm, as is the case right now).
The subway stop Manzoni is on line A, two stops from Rome Termini and the Bed and Breakfast Chaplin Hostel.