Materdei Metro Station

Materdei is a station on Line 1 of the Naples Metro and is located in Piazza Scipione Ammirato in Naples. According to the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph it was ranked in 16th place as the most beautiful metro station in Europe.

Description

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

Ist 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. A detail of the station is the glass spire that overlooks the mosaic and was also designed by Mendini, also the author of the urban redevelopment of the area surrounding the station, which involved the pedestrianization of part of Piazza Ammirato and Via Leone Marsicano and the consequent substantial variation of the viability in the area.

The station, unlike all the others, is not located in a main road, but is located in the Materdei district, a short distance from the Arenella district and the Sanità district.

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