Materdei is a station on Line 1 of the

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and is located in Piazza Scipione Ammirato in

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. According to the

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it was ranked in 16th place as the most beautiful

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Description

The station was designed by

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and inaugurated on 5 July 2003 in the presence of the fifteen transport ministers of the

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nations. Its opening took place two years after the completion of the entire section up to

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as it was used as an extraction well for the surface recovery of the materials and machinery used during the excavations. Inside the

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, which is part of the circuit of art stations, there is a mosaic by

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, a high-relief by Luigi Ontani and works by

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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.

Services

The station has: * Feature_ticket_office_inv_2

Automatic ticket office

Interchanges

The Materdei station, as previously mentioned, is located in a neighborhood street and therefore is the only station on line 1 that does not have surface interchanges. Until 2016 an ANM shuttle line called C53 was active, connecting the square outside the station with Piazza Museo Nazionale and the

Fontanelle Cemetery The Fontanelle cemetery in Naples is a charnel house, an ossuary, located in a cave in the tuff hillside in the Materdei section of the city. It is associated with a chapter in the folklore of the city. By the time the Spanish moved into the cit ...

. This line, given the low turnout, was first limited with morning runs on weekdays and subsequently completely suppressed; to make up for the lack, a second exit was idealized in 2016 and designed in 2018 at the base of the stairway in via Telesino (near the aforementioned cemetery).

References

{{Reflist Naples Metro stations located underground Railway stations opened in 2003 2003 establishments in Italy