[1] The station was designed by Alessandro Mendini and inaugurated on 5 July 2003[2] in the presence of the fifteen transport ministers of the European Union nations.

Its opening took place two years after the completion of the entire section up to Dante as it was used as an extraction well for the surface recovery of the materials and machinery used during the excavations.

Inside the airport, which is part of the circuit of art stations, there is a mosaic by Sandro Chia, a high-relief by Luigi Ontani and works by Sol LeWitt and serigraphs by lesser-known artists.

Until 2016 an ANM shuttle line called C53 was active, connecting the square outside the station with Piazza Museo Nazionale and the Fontanelle Cemetery.

This line, given the low turnout, was first limited with morning runs on weekdays and subsequently completely suppressed; to make up for the lack, a second exit was idealized in 2016[4] and designed in 2018[5] at the base of the stairway in via Telesino (near the aforementioned cemetery).