L'Osservatorio Nazionale sulle Manifestazioni Sportive

"Italy - Ireland": Rome, 15th February 2009

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,705,317 residents, an urban area of 3,457,690 as well as a metropolitan area of about 4 million inhabitants spread over a 5,352 km² area. It is located in the central-western portion of the Italian peninsula, on the Tiber river.

Rome's history as a city spans over two and a half thousand years, as one of the founding cities of Western Civilisation. Even outside of the history of the Roman Empire, Rome has a significant place in the story of Christianity up to the present day as the home of the Roman Catholic Church.

 

From the airports - daytime
Fiumicino Airport "Leonardo da Vinci" (FCO)
Rome's main airport is well-connected to the center during the day by a direct train and slower trains. The direct train between Fiumicino and Termini costs € 11,00 and takes approximately 30 minutes. Tickets can be purchased at vending machines, ticket offices and other vendors at both Termini and Fiumicino.

schedule: every 30 minutes
Fiumicino - Roma from 6.37am until 11.37pm
Roma - Fiumicino from 5.52am until 10.52pm

There is another train connecting Fiumicino airport to central Rome - when you are at the airport train station look for the train with the destination "Orte" or "Fara Sabina". It is slower (and cheaper) because it stops at some smaller local stations along the way and does not stop at Termini. Trains take about 45 minutes to reach Tiburtina.  Tickets cost €5,50.

schedule: every 15-30 minutes
Fiumicino Airport - Trastevere - Ostiense - Tiburtina from 5.57am until 11.27pm
Tiburtina - Ostiense - Trastevere - Fiumicino Airport from 5.06am until 10.36pm

For more information: www.adr.it

Ciampino Airport "G.B. Pastine" (CIA)
A smaller airport dealing mainly with charter flights and budget airlines.

It is connected to Line A metro station Anagnina (about 30 mins by metro from Termini) by Cotral buses; ticket costs € 1,03. Buses leave every 30-60 minutes. 

For more information: www.adr.it
Bus connections:  www.cotralspa.it    and   www.sitbusshuttle.it

 

From the airports – night time
Fiumicino
For arrivals and departures between 11.30pm and 5am, a night bus connects Fiumicino with Tiburtina station,  stopping also at Termini Station.

From Fiumicino: 1.15am - 2.15am - 3.30am - 5.00am
From Tiburtina: 0.30am - 1.15am - 2.30am - 3.45am
The 40N bus connects Tiburtina and Termini during the night.

Ciampino
Buses connecting Ciampino airport with the centre of Rome stop running at 11pm, so the only way to get into town late at night is by taxi.

Underground

Rome's metro system is very useful and quite safe as long as you are alert. Although the bus network is extensive and buses run frequently (though still crowded), the metro is much simpler to master.

The metro system has two lines, A and B, which cross at Termini. There are trains from 5.30 am until 11.30 pm every day (Sat. 0.30 am). Starting from January 10th 2004 the underground trains will stop running at 9.00 pm. due to restoration works. In this period the underground trains will be replaced by a shuttle bus service.

Metro stations on line A do not have facilities for disabled (except Cipro-Musei Vaticani and Valle Aurelia); In alternative, bus 590 follows the same route of metro line A and has wheelchair access (see "useful buslines below"). All the metro stations on line B have facilities for disabled except Circo Massimo, Colosseo and Cavour (direction Laurentina).

Metro A offers the possibility to organise itineraries particularly interesting both for shopping and for the visit of monuments. Here is a list of metro A stops with possible itineraries:

• Cipro, is the privileged way to the Vatican Museums
• Ottaviano takes to S.Pietro.
• Lepanto to Via Cola di Rienzo, a shopping area right for every pocket
• Flaminio, both for a walk in Villa Borghese and the Pincio Terrace and a downtown shopping along Via del Corso, Via del Babuino, Piazza del Popolo and S.Maria dei Miracoli.
• Spagna, to Piazza di Spagna and the trendy Trinità dei Monti facing Via dei Condotti. Not far there is the Fontana di Trevi.
• Via Veneto and the Fontana di Trevi are near Barberini stop, the Terme di Diocleziano to the Repubblica stop.
• Vittorio Emanuele to the Basilica of S.Maria Maggiore
• S.Giovanni to the Basilica of S.Giovanni and the Scala Santa - Holy Steps
• Cinecittà takes to the film Studios.

 

Metro B stops relevant for tourists, instead, are the following:

• S.Paolo, to the Basilica di S.Paolo
• Piramide, to the Pyramid of Caius Cestius
• Circo Massimo and Colosseum, to Colosseum and the Roman Forum
• Cavour, to visit S.Pietro in Vincoli.