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Location: Napoli, Naples, Campania, Italy

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1. Galleria Umberto I – Royal Palace of Naples loop from Garibaldi

25.9km

07:00

350m

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2. Galleria Umberto I – Piazza Dante loop from Duomo

13.2km

03:46

290m

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3. Via dei Tribunali – Piazza San Domenico Maggiore loop from Napoli Garibaldi

5.28km

01:23

40m

Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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Norbert Reichl

December 30, 2021

Garibaldi Station

For decades, the huge Piazza Garibaldi in front of the main train station in Naples was a monster construction site. Because the whole square was hollowed out and dug up according to designs by the French architect Dominique Perrault. The effort has paid off because the architects have succeeded in giving the formerly inhospitable place a structure and a center. To do this, they have lowered part of the piazza and spanned this lower part with a bold roof structure that is remotely reminiscent of an abstract forest.

From this piazza, free-hanging escalators lead over 30 meters down to the metro platform. What do these fantastic stairs remember that seem to have no beginning and no end? You could have sprung from a Kafkaesque nightmare. Or maybe they resemble the ghostly labyrinths from Piranesi's Carceri.

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Norbert Reichl

December 30, 2021

But they certainly take the traveler for a moment into a science fiction setting and transform the human being into a tiny protagonist in a technoid machine world.

At some point even the most beautiful escalator in the world ends. And suddenly you are standing in the middle of a waiting crowd. The suitcases are packed, the only thing missing is the train so that the journey can start. But why don't these people move? And why are you rushing through the crowd at a hasty pace?

Quite simply, you are standing in front of a large mirror made of polished steel. The people waiting are printed on it in a velvety manner. Because the concept artist Michelangelo Pistoletto created these mirror images for the Piazza Garibaldi. Pistoletto says of this work that it is a door that connects art and real life. That succeeded.

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Norbert Reichl

December 30, 2021

The static images of the work of art and the moving, constantly changing reflections of the real people who hurry through the room, coexist and penetrate each other in these magical mirrors.

"Metro dell 'Arte - The art metro of Naples" sirenen-und-heuler.de/metro-neapel

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Location: Napoli, Naples, Campania, Italy

Garibaldi Metro Art Station

1. Galleria Umberto I – Royal Palace of Naples loop from Garibaldi

2. Galleria Umberto I – Piazza Dante loop from Duomo

3. Via dei Tribunali – Piazza San Domenico Maggiore loop from Napoli Garibaldi

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