About us
Who is behind metroroma.org, how we work and where our data comes from.
An independent guide to the Rome metro
We are a small independent group: on one side people who know Rome, its transport network and the habit of walking friends and visitors around the city; on the other, people who build websites and web tools. metroroma.org is what happens when you put the two together.
The idea is simple. Rome's metro is small for a city of this size — three lines, a little over seventy stations — and the reason is underfoot: every excavation runs into something ancient, and every find pushes the timetable back by years. The upshot is that the metro on its own is rarely enough: you need to know where to get off and how far you walk afterwards.
We wanted one place with all of it — the map, the timetables, the fares, a route planner and a page for every single stop — written so that it makes sense even if this is your first time in Rome.
What you will find here
A page for every station on the network
For each stop we tell you when it opened, how it is built, which facilities are documented and, above all, what is around it: not one text repeated everywhere with the name swapped, but a page written station by station.
Map, timetables and fares in one place
The network map as a downloadable PDF, service hours line by line, and a page on tickets, fares and the ATAC travel card, with prices we check against official channels.
A route planner that actually works
Pick your origin and destination and we tell you how long it takes, how many changes you need and which line to take. It was the first tool we built, and it is the one we reach for ourselves.
How to reach Rome's sights by metro
Duomo, the Last Supper, Sforza Castle, San Siro, the Navigli, the fashion quarter: for each one we explain the right stop, the line and what to expect when you come up the stairs.
How we work
This is the part we care about most, because it is what separates a useful guide from a copied page.
Official sources first
Fares, service hours and network data come from ATAC and from the City of Rome open data portal, including the GTFS feed the city publishes. Where historical context is needed we cross-check documented public sources.
If a fact is not published, we do not invent it
When something is not available — the exact number of exits at a station, a per-hour frequency ATAC does not state — we say so, or we leave it out. We would rather have one line less than one line wrong.
We do not call anything "real time" unless it is
If a piece of information comes from a published timetable, we say it comes from a published timetable. For service status right now, lift breakdowns and disruption notices, the reference is always the ATAC app — and we repeat that on every page where it might matter to you.
We correct things when we get them wrong
Networks change: stations open, fares change, surface routes move. If you spot a mistake, tell us through the contact form. We read every report and we do make the corrections.
What we are not
metroroma.org is not an official site. We have no connection with ATAC, the City of Rome or any public body, we do not sell tickets and we do not handle season passes, lost property or complaints. If you need an official service, ATAC's own channels are the right place. We do something else: we explain how the network works and how to use it to get where you are going.
The site is funded by advertising. That does not change what we write: advertising space is kept separate from the content, and no advertiser decides what we say about a station or a line.
Get in touch
Questions, suggestions, corrections — or simply a tip about what to see when you come out at a particular stop: write to [email protected] or use the contact form. We normally reply within two working days.
Who is behind this site
This site is run by the team at GoRandom, a small group based in the Basque Country in Spain who do two things that go together better than they sound: travel, and build websites.
We were in Rome in March 2024, and the city guide on gorandom.es came out of that trip. We liked it enough to want to go back, and after enough hours spent staring at network maps and comparing travel passes this turned up: a site about nothing except how you actually get around here.
The other half of what we know how to do is web development, and this site is the excuse to put the two together. We do not leave it sitting there: every fare and every timetable carries its source and the date we checked it, and they get revised when the operator changes something. The last thorough revision was in August 2026: we rebuilt the station pages from Atac’s official GTFS and fixed the end-to-end time on line A, which said 35 minutes when the real figure is 41.
He decides what goes up, checks the data before it does, and answers the email. If you find a fare that has expired or a timetable that no longer holds, there is a specific person to write to.