Rome Metro
Metro · Rome · ATAC
4 lines · 76 stations · 15 interchanges
Every line drawn through its stations. Tap a line in the legend to hide or show it.
Lines
Quick facts
- Operator
- ATAC runs the metro, buses, and trams inside Rome's city network.
- Payment
- Tap&Go lets you use a contactless bank card or phone wallet at enabled metro gates and readers.
- Use the same card/device through the day so fare logic and inspections line up cleanly.
- ContactlessFare inspection
- Airport
- Fiumicino is not a metro trip. Use Leonardo Express, FL1, taxi, or car service.
- Ciampino also needs bus/rail or taxi logic rather than a direct metro ride.
- National rail connection
- Main visitor lines
- Line A handles Vatican/Spagna/Termini, Line B handles Colosseum/Monti/Termini, Line C is the newer eastern buildout.
- Line ALine BLine C
- Network type
- A small heavy-metro network in an archaeological city, where every central extension has to dig through ruins.
- MetroArchaeological construction
Mike’s notes
Rome is not a metro-first city like Madrid or Paris. The center is dense and walkable, and the metro is small: three lines that meet at Termini and reach the Vatican, the Colosseum, and Piramide, while the historic core around the Pantheon, Piazza Navona, and Trastevere has no station at all. Ride to the nearest stop, then walk in.
How to pay
ATAC's Tap&Go is the easy option. Tap a contactless card or phone wallet at the gate, and keep the same card on you in case of an inspection. A paper ticket works too, as long as you validate it. Fare checks happen, so don't ride without a valid tap or ticket.
The three lines
Line A (orange) runs past the Vatican Museums, Spanish Steps, and Barberini to Termini. It is the most useful line for a first trip and the most pickpocketed, worst around Spagna and Repubblica. Line B (blue) covers the Colosseum, Monti, and the run south to EUR. Line C (green) is the newest, and since 2025 it reaches the Colosseum, where it meets Line B.
Fiumicino is not a metro trip. The airport is the Leonardo Express or the FL1 regional train. The metro starts once you are in the city.
Short history
1955
Line B opens
Rome's first metro opens between Termini and the EUR direction, giving the city a postwar rapid-transit spine.
1980
Line A arrives
Line A opens across the historic visitor axis from the Vatican side through Spagna, Barberini, and Termini.
2014 onward
Line C begins service
Rome's newest metro line opens in stages, shaped by modern metro design and the difficulty of building through an archaeological city.