JonSchneider
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This is exactly right. Rome's subway is famously dug very deep (30-80 meters) so the tunnels run under the ruins, but each station requires an excavation down to tunnel depth.
It's pretty impressive in person.
(Scroll through the gallery that isn't obviously a gallery near the top to see it)