The Art Stations: Naples' museum metro
The Naples metro is also a museum in itself: the Line 1 'Art Stations' combine architecture by leading designers with works by major contemporary artists, and some are ranked among the most beautiful in the world. Here are the masterpiece stations not to miss, all reachable with an ordinary metro ticket.
5 places
Street artStazione Toledo (Stazioni dell'Arte)
Napoli (NA)
Toledo station descends into the deep blue of the sea through Tusquets' 'Crater de luz', where the shimmering mosaics turn the metro into a plunge into water and light.
Street artStazione Dante
Napoli (NA)
At Dante station contemporary art inhabits the daily passage, from Joseph Kosuth's neon to the works that accompany commuters between the piazza and the bowels of the city.
Street artStazione Università (Karim Rashid)
Napoli (NA)
Karim Rashid has turned Università station into a flash of magenta and fluid surfaces, futuristic geometries conceived as a hymn to knowledge and connection.
Street artStazione Materdei
Napoli (NA)
Materdei station weaves together natural light and coloured mosaics, bringing back to the surface the breath of a hillside neighbourhood often left off the usual itineraries.
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Stazione Municipio (Stazioni dell'Arte)
Napoli (NA)
La stazione-museo di piazza Municipio, firmata Siza e Souto de Moura, integra i resti del porto antico di Napoli e cinque navi romane ritrovate negli scavi.