Metro Station San Giovanni - Rome 🇮🇹 - Walkthrough 🚶

filmed in April 2024
San Giovanni is a station on the lines A and C.
The station opened on February 16, 1980 (the line C platforms opened on May 12, 2018).
San Giovanni is Rome’s first “museum station”. It begins with today’s world in the large hall and then delves into the past in almost 30 metres of stratigraphy that trace the history of the site all the way back to when it was a prehistoric swamp. Metro travellers can also view a series of finds that were uncovered during excavations.
A team of architects from La Sapienza University, headed by Andrea Grimaldi and Filippo Lambertucci, has covered all the walls in the station with glass panels on which various stories are narrated. These feature a series of different colour codes that compare the history of the site with the changing fortunes of “The Eternal City”. Great care has also been taken over the lighting that has to meet safety criteria and standard subway specifications as well as providing the quality an exhibition space requires.
At ground level, in the large hall, a number of modern ceramics dating from the sixteenth century onwards are displayed. These artefacts once belonged to the San Giovanni Hospital but were subsequently thrown away in the hospital dump. In this area a spectacular ring of light has been created with Underscore InOut luminaires fitted with a special low smoke emission screen to meet the technical requirements for this kind of environment. The spectacular design of this light circle helps to give this space, which both welcomes and orientates travellers, a distinctive character by creating general lighting integrated with Reflex recessed luminaires.
As you move down through the structure, the first level you come to is the ‘correspondence floor’ where in the first century AD there was a farm. The exhibits here include a series of drainage amphorae and piping as well as a large basin that was originally used to store and redistribute water. These large exhibits are displayed in spacious showcases lit by high colour rendering Underscore light lines installed along black parallelepiped bases on which the amphorae are positioned. Recessed Laser luminaires provide further lighting from above. Smaller exhibits, like rings, coins and gems are displayed in specially designed showcases built into the walls. These smaller showcases are also lit with recessed Laser luminaires, whose light emission in certain cases is integrated by Underscore Ledstrips cut to the size of the showcases. The bottom floor, where the trains pass, is at a depth of 30 metres. Here the walls are decorated with vegetation typical of the swamps that were here in the Pleistocene period. For the platforms in this area, iGuzzini has produced special recessed fluorescent lamps with low smoke emission levels and dimensions that tally exactly with the sizes of the wall cladding panels. In addition to the illumination that highlights the unearthed exhibits and enhances the exhibition project, functional lighting has also been installed, of course. For both the escalators and platform areas, this was created by iN60 pendant luminaires. The handrail on the stairs next to the escalators is highlighted with an Underscore light line that lightens the impact of the feature in the same way that light is used as a graphic element in the explanatory panels, particularly those that narrate the story of the site’s stratigraphy.
The result is a station that demonstrates how past and present can live together by helping to create a sense of continuity and belonging to the history of a community.
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[@peteschneider2241]

The trains on line A and C sound like the 3000/8000 and 7000/9000 series in Madrid, respectively.

[@samlemalmi3319]

Gutes Video!
Der Bahnsteig der Linie C schaut sehr modern aus und die Museumsstücke machen die Station sehr interessnat.
Schade, dass man den Bahnsteig der Linie A nicht saniert hat.

[@MetroCheck]

Danke! Anscheinend soll jetzt doch auch ab Ende 2024 der Bahnsteig der Linie A saniert werden!

[@TheMexxodus]

Yet another disgrace of a metro station. It may be renovated (at last), but the first part of the station and the decaying state it's in is unworthy of a European capital city, especially of Rome. The second part of line C looks nicer and modern, but again please send some window cleaners to keep the glass cabinets with the artifacts nice. It's showing a lack of respect and maintenance. 🤔🤨

[@linofe9667]

Compared to other subways visited, Rome's is the most neglected.
The part of line A with 44 years of service demonstrates the lack of maintenance, I want to see what the C line will become in the next few years.

[@UdoKrawallo]

Auch wieder gut. Aber das ist ja echt echt unordentlich dort. Bald noch schlimmer als in Berlin. Der Typ mit der Musikbox ist schon unverschämt. Nicht nur, daß es belästigend ist, sondern sowieso völlig sinnfrei. Da würde sich Jim Morrison wohl im Grabe umdrehen.

[@MetroCheck]

Danke! Ja, der Unterschied zwischen dem Bereich Linie A und Linie C ist schon extrem. Es macht doch überhaupt keinen Sinn, einen Teil der Station auf Hochglanz zu polieren und den anderen Teil völlig herunterkommen zu lassen! Immerhin habe ich bei 4:02 die Szene unkenntlich gemacht, als die Frau auf den Boden spuckt...
Die zwei Songs wollte ich eigentlich von TH-cam stummschalten lassen, aber das funktioniert anscheinend zur Zeit nicht🙄(Funktion ist ausgegraut). Andererseits würde es ein bisschen komisch aussehen, wenn man den Typ ohne dazugehörigen Ton herumhampeln sehen würde.😋

[@UdoKrawallo]

@@MetroCheck Hm, ok, ohne die Information hätte ich jetzt eh nicht gewußt, was die da macht. Na "lecker", aber immerhin kam keine Körperflüssigkeit aus anderen Öffnungen 😁Ein befreundeter Tf hat mir ja schon einige "schöne" Sachen aus seinen Schichten gezeigt...nun ja. Wer nicht glaubt, daß die Menschheit sich zurückentwickelt, der wird spätestens nach einer Nachtschicht im städtischen Nahverkehr davon überzeugt.
Tja, so laut wie das ist, kein Wunder, daß TH-cam es erkennt. Man könnte sich aber eh seinen Teil denken oder man erstellt einen Texthinweis dazu 😎