San Giovanni
San Giovanni is an underground interchange station on Lines A and C of the Rome Metro. The station is located in Piazzale Appio at the beginning of Via Appia Nuova, beside the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, from which the station takes its name.Photo: Guybrush Threepwood, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Railway stop
- Description: Rome Metro station
- Also known as: “S. Giovanni”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Porta San Giovanni and Scala Sancta.
Porta San Giovanni
City gate
Photo: LPLT, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Porta San Giovanni is a gate in the Aurelian Wall of Rome, Italy, named after the nearby Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran.
Scala Sancta
Church
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The Scala Sancta are a set of 28 white marble steps located in an edifice on extraterritorial property of the Holy See in Rome, Italy proximate to the Archbasilica of Saint John in Laterano. Scala Sancta is situated 330 metres northwest of San Giovanni.
Lateran Obelisk
Obelisk
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The Lateran Obelisk is the largest standing ancient Egyptian obelisk in the world, and it is also the tallest obelisk in Italy. It originally weighed 413 tonnes, but after collapsing and being re-erected 4 metres shorter, now weighs around 300 tonnes. Lateran Obelisk is situated 480 metres west of San Giovanni.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include San Lorenzo and Colosseo.
San Lorenzo
Neighborhood
San Lorenzo is an urban zone in Rome, Italy. Administratively it was part of both Municipio II and Quarter VI Tiburtino. It occupies roughly the two sides of the early stretch of Via Tiburtina, starting from Termini railway station and ending at the Verano area.
Colosseo
Photo: Paolostefano1412, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Colosseo district is the heart of ancient Rome and the Roman Empire. It has the Colosseum, the Forum, and the Capitoline Museum.
Esquilino-San Giovanni
Photo: Cristian Bortes, CC BY 2.0.
Esquilino and San Giovanni are adjacent neighborhoods in Rome. Esquilino is named for the Esquiline hill on which it stands. It lies south of the Termini station and is centred more or less on the Piazza Vittorio Emmanuele II.
San Giovanni
- Categories: transport hub, underground station, metro station, transport stop, and transportation
- Location: Municipio Roma I, Rome, Metropolitan Rome, Lazio, Central Italy, Italy, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.88561° or 41° 53′ 8″ northLongitude
12.51034° or 12° 30′ 37″ eastOperator
ATACNetwork
Metro COpen location code
8FHJVGP6+64OpenStreetMap ID
node 6267563900OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stop_positionOpenStreetMap feature
railway=stopWikidata ID
Q1227431
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In Other Languages
From Aragonese to Urdu—“San Giovanni” goes by many names.
- Aragonese: “San Giovanni”
- Chinese: “圣若望站”
- Dutch: “San Giovanni (metrostation)”
- Dutch: “San Giovanni”
- Esperanto: “San Giovanni”
- French: “S. Giovanni”
- French: “San Giovanni”
- German: “San Giovanni”
- Italian: “S. Giovanni”
- Italian: “San Giovanni”
- Japanese: “サン・ジョヴァンニ駅”
- Korean: “산조반니역”
- Latin: “San Giovanni”
- Latin: “Sanctus Ioannes”
- Lombard: “San Giovanni”
- Polish: “San Giovanni”
- Russian: “Сан-Джованни”
- Spanish: “San Giovanni”
- Swedish: “San Giovanni”
- Ukrainian: “Сан-Джованні”
- Urdu: “سان جیووانی (روم میٹرو)”
- Urdu: “سان جیووانی”
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Notable Places Nearby
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