Distance from the hotel: 400 m (0,24 miles)

On foot
-     Approximately 2 minutes

Public Transport
-     Metro line A
-     Approximately 1 minute

Taxi
-      Approximate cost Euro 4
-      Approximately 1 minute


The Termini Station represents the most important railway place of call in Rome and Italy. This is constituted by 29 track and 22 tracks reach the gummed gallery, 4 are dedicated to Lazio lines and 2 represent service tracks. History and Architecture… after the opening of the first two railways of Papal State, the Rome-Frascati and the Rome-Civitavecchia railway, rises the problem to give a rational planning to the Rome railway junction and to decide if Rome needed of one station only or one railway station for every line.

Under the pressure of Monsignor Merode, who had personal interests in Termini Area and in the actual National street, the first hypothesis has been the prevalent one and for the new station was chosen the Termini area. This area, placed on the Esquiline hill derives its name from the ancient Diocletian Thermae. The first station construction started in 1862 and ended the 25th February 1863 with the name of Central Station of Roman Railway at the same time with the inauguration of railway connection of Rome with Ceprano and then Naples.  The 2nd July 1868 started the construction of the new Termini Station and it was concluded in 1874.
The front of old station was 200 metres advanced as regards today and it covered all the actual Five hundred Square, reaching the Enrique De Nicola Street.

In 1883 was installed the electric lighting under the roofs and into the station inner rooms. During the thirties of XX century the Rome railway place of call was modernized and the main work was the construction of a new Termini Station, larger and more adapt to the needs of the more and more intense railway traffic of the new century. In 1939 was approved the Angiolo Mazzoni plan for the realization of the new railway station and very soon the old station was demolished. The works started very soon but they were stopped for the collapse of Fascist Regime and the inner involving of Italy in the Second World War. After the end of War Mazzoni was purged as Fascist and his project was considered obsolete, above all about the front. So a competition was announced for the completion of works. The famous architects Montuori and Vitelozzi won the competition.
The Mecenate Palace Hotel is 400 mt away from Termini Station