Roma Termini is Rome's main railway station. The infobox says it opened in 1862, while the text says the first temporary station opened on February 25, 1863, and the permanent station was built from 1868 to 1874. The current building was inaugurated in 1950, designed by Leo Calini and Eugenio Montuori, with other architects in a 1947 competition.
The Modernist form has a barrel vault derived from Roman bath architecture, with a concrete roof, full-height glass walls, anodized aluminum frieze panels and a travertine-clad hotel block. It has 32 platforms. A cantilevered canopy covers the entrance drive, and Amerigo Tot made the frieze.
Work on a replacement began in 1937 for the 1942 World's Fair, which was never held, and stopped in 1943. A section of the Servian Wall stands outside. About 850 trains and 150 million passengers use it yearly.
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