Toledo — Local services in Naples

It is opened in September 2012, the Toledo Metro Station was the 16th station built on Naples Metro Line 1.

Toledo station designed by the Spanish architect Óscar Tusquets Blanca, at 50 meters deep, the station extends below the ground water and is the deepest metro station built on Line 1 to date. One of Metro Napoli’s Metro Art Stations, it was designed around the themes of water and light.

The internal space of the station is decorated with volcanic stone and big orange circles with the first floor down echoing the ancient town walls of the Aragons. There are mosaics by William Kentridge (Naples Procession) picturing the opening of the first train station in the city in 1906. As you go deeper down into the station you come across another important element of the city, the sea. On the second floor down, the walls become dramatically calm with the colours of blue and white . The more deeper you go the more bluer it gets becoming dark blue like the abyss of the ocean. Looking up you can admire the impressive cone, Crater del luz, crater of light that with a display of LED lights gives the impression...

It seems like it's becoming a habit to visit metro stations - on purpose - when I vacation. Last year, I ventured out of the center of Stockholm to Vastra Skogen to ride the ninth-longest escalator in the world. Today in Napoli, I'm at the crown jewel of the Naples metro "art stations."

Nominated as one of the most beautiful transit stations in Europe, Toledo is built on multiple layers which the color scheme designed to reflect some part of the city. Mosaics that detail the history on one level, the original Aragonese walls incorporated into the atrium, and even a long LED light installation that reproduces the movement of the waves.

Yes, it's still a subway station between Dante (towards Piscinola) and Municipio (towards Garibaldi). It is on Linea 1 of the metro and you'll find automated ticket vending machines and turnstiles in the ticketing concourse. The station is...

The dirtiest station out of the 10+ stations I have been to in Napoli area. There is a minimum of €1.5 required to enter the underground section of the station - the one which is supposed to be the tourist attraction. It was average to poor experience, just 2 long escalators which took 5 minutes to get down to the platform. There was no art or decoration, just one opening on the roof which had blinking blue/green lights. Once I was at the platform, the latest train in the Piscinola direction was 17 min away. I just wanted to get off the next station which was 9 min walk away.

I highly recommend the Underground Naples tour in the city center to see the underground tunnels of Napoli, they are deep and have a fascinating history. This station is built on one such underground tunnel. However, this station is completely missable in my opinion. Neither a tourist attraction nor a good...