Webuild: inaugurated San Pasquale Station of Line 6 of Naples' Metro

The inside of the station is made of 5 different levels. It measures 100 metres in length and is 35 metres high. It was built as if descending into the sea: in fact, resembling an old sunken ship resting on in deep sea waters. The sea is in fact evoked through the large, coloured panels with three different blue shades, lining the walls simulating sea waves, with a superior wire mesh resembling a ship's sail, with a multimedia function due to the informative monitors that inform of the city's ongoing cultural events. The idea of a large sunken ship is re-evoked by the portholes that are simulated on the COR-TEN steel (weathering steel) used for the walls that line the central part of the station, and that also act as a point of illumination of the platform level.

San Pasquale Station, built through a project by Italian-Slovak architect Boris Podrecca, also enriched with art works of Austrian artist Peter Kogler, is part of Line 6 of Naples' metro line. Inaugurated today, in its totality, the Line 6 is a strategic infrastructure for the city's integrated and sustainable mobility. It extends for 5.5 kilometres with 8 stations. It connects theFuorigrottaneighbourhood, on the west, amongst the city's most populated neighbourhoods, with central Piazza Municipio, also allowing new interconnections with the pre-existing lines: Line 1 at Municipio, Line 2 at theMergellinaandMostrastations.Mostra station also interconnects with the Cumana Railway (Ferrovia Cumana).

The work is one of the 14 stations of the metro built by Webuild in Naples. The Group was protagonist in building Line 1, as it built 10 of the total 19 stations currently operating, amongst which some of the most iconic "Art Stations", like the multi-awardedToledo, but alsoUniversità ,Dante,Museo,Materdei. In Naples, Webuild is currently buildingCapodichinoStationof Line 1 and theBretella di Monte Sant'Angelo, also known as Line 7, where it is building the new Monte Sant'Angelo station, which hosts works of the British sculptor of Indian-Iraqi origin, Anish Kapoor, and those related to Parco San Paolo station. Webuild is also building the doubling of theCumana railway Line, which connects Naples to Pozzuoli, along an approximately 5-km-long section, between Dazio and Cantieri stations.