The Naples Metro. A journey through time between history, art and culture
Eighteen kilometers for a total of 18 stations, where it is possible to admire 180 works by over 90 internationally renowned architects and artists. These are the main characteristics of the Naples metro, which for tourists and citizens is not only a means of transport, but is also a real open-air museum, thanks to the so-called art stations, which have transformed the city into a large museum of contemporary art in the open air, celebrated all over the world, which can be visited for free or by paying only the price of a single ticket. The most famous station is certainly that of Toledo, which the English newspaper Daily Telegraph and CNN awarded in 2012 as the most beautiful in Europe: designed by the Catalan architect Oscar Tusquets Blanca, it is dominated by the blue of the sea and the sky , and with extraordinary mosaics on the walls dedicated to San Gennaro, a marine corridor and the suggestive Crater de Luz, a gigantic cone from which you can enjoy an unparalleled view of the city waiting for the most beautiful of all, the famous Duomo station, designed by Fuksas that passes through archaeological finds from the times of the isolympic games currently undergoing testing but which is a candidate among the most beautiful ever.

Metro Duomo Station

Metro Toledo Station
Designed by the Catalan architect Oscar Tusquets Blanca and inaugurated in 2012, the Toledo stop is the crown jewel of the art stations of the Naples metro. Here, the works of artists, designers and architects coexist in these underground stations; from Alessandro Mendini to Anish Kapoor, from Gae Aulenti to Jannis Kounellis, from Karim Rashid to Michelangelo Pistoletto and Sol LeWitt. The Toledo art station, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, is made up of different rooms: a long escalator descends over 50 meters underground (which makes this station one of the deepest), the wall and the floor of the atrium of the first level are black, recalling the asphalt of the cities of the contemporary age.
The remains of the Aragonese walls are integrated into the atrium, and after the first ramps dominated by the ocher color of the tiles and the yellow, which alludes to the colors of the tuff and the sun of Naples, you pass into Robert's sea gallery. Wilson, a psychedelic environment that oscillates between blue and purple, completely composed of mosaics with marine motifs which, thanks to the installation of two LEDs, evokes the seascape by reproducing the continuous movement of the waves.

Metro University Station

Metro Duomo Station


Metro Garibaldi Station
Metro Dante Station

Metro Museum Station

Metro Materdei Station