15/01/2019
The Toledo station has been considered the most beautiful station in Europe by CNN and the Daily Telegraph daily newspaper. It was completed recently (2012), and was designed by the spanish architect Oscar Tusquets Blanca.
The most impressive work of this station is Crater de luz, by Robert Wilson, which connects the inside with the outside and remembers the sea in its many facets, as well as the wavy walls surrounding it. The brightness and colors that fill the space with different shades of blue fascinate thousands of passengers every year. The same artist is a digital installation that replicates the sea waves for a surface of 24 meters and covers the walls of the corridor leading to the dock, By the sea .. you and me is the title of the work.
Inside the station everything remembers the recent history of Naples. On the first floor you can admire the remains of the Aragonese walls that cradled the area in medieval times, but in the atrium you can find two events related to the Parthenon people depicted in two beautiful and colorful mosaics: a procession guided by St. Gennaro the patron saint of the city And a scene that recalls the works for the construction of the subway (“Central Railway for the City of Naples”, 1906; “Reclamation of the Lower Naples Districts in Relation to Metropolitan Railroad”, 1884).
