Toledo

Metropolitan Naples, Italy

Toledo is a station on line 1 of the Naples underground located in the San Giuseppe district. Designed by the Spanish architect Óscar Tusquets, the station is used to move both in the area of the Carità district and in the area of the adjacent Spanish Quarters, as well as the nearby Piazza Carità. According to the English newspaper The Daily Telegraph it is the most beautiful metro station in Europe. In 2015 it won the 'International Tunneling Association: Oscar of underground works', awarded to the station that outpaces the competition from major works in Sydney and Jerusalem.

Designed around the themes of light and water, hexagonal openings and a huge crater allow the natural light to reach into the deepest recesses of the station. Here, mimicking the movement of the sea, Robert Wilson’s light panels move passengers along the corridor that leads to the train platform. It is another stunning example of a collaborative project engaging architects, artists, designers, and craftsmen from near and far in the laboratory, in the experiment in the large-scale public art that is Naples Metro System.