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Italy Naples, Islands, Pizza and Camorra! Naples My Trip to [...] Strange Futuristic Metro Station [...]
Strange Futuristic Metro Station in Naples
There's an art world "down there", but you won't know unless you enter the Naples metro and see for yourself.
I wanted to travel with the metro, but it was closed due to reconstruction work. The art down there was amazing.
My feet were tired and I thought I'd speed up the process of getting home to my hotel (which was Hotel Zara, by the way) in the proximity of the Giuseppe Garibaldi Square.
I just found the Università Station and descended into the "abyss"...
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To my surprise, everything looked new and squeaky clean. I was expecting a descent into a dark filthy tunnel, but to my surprise, things looked a lot prettier "down there".
Cliché shapes. Typical digital kitsch. I hope it doesn't wear off...
What I liked more was on the 3rd photo, down below...
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Obviously, construction was undergoing and therefore - everything looked like new. But, from what I understood - they were restoring the old (already existing) stations.
This might as well be a modern art gallery
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I looked it up to see who renovated the Università Station: Karim Rashid - New York designer (here's the Karim Rashid website).
For more photos of the station, I recommend this link.
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Descending... looking at the tiles I thought it's the entrance to an underground digital toilet of some sort...