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The first station on the site was built in 1866 on a design by the architect Enrico Alvino and it was opened on 7 May of the following year. The current station was designed in 1954 by Pier Luigi Nervi, Carlo Cocchia, Massimo Battaglini, Bruno Zevi, Giulio De Luca, Luigi Piccinato and Giuseppe Vaccaro on the site of the old railway station and overlooks the square dedicated to Giuseppe Garibaldi.
The Central Funicular (Italian: Funicolare Centrale), is one of four funiculars in the public transportion system of Naples, Italy. The system is a true funicular: an inclined railway with two passenger cars, connected via cables, operating in concert.
The construction of the Rome–Formia–Naples railway in the 1920s positively changed the destiny of the station and negatively affected the Sparanise–Gaeta line. For an initial period, the Formia–Sparanise section of the latter line was used by trains to Rome because the direct route was not yet finished.
The station only briefly saw Seaboard Air Line passenger service in the late 1920s before the railroad reduced its line to Naples to freight service only in 1933. Seaboard ended freight service in the 1940s. During World War II, the depot was also home to USO shows for troops stationed at the nearby Naples airfield.
The Garibaldi station on Line 1 of the Naples Metro, designed by the French architect Dominique Perrault, exemplifies modern and functional architecture. Serving the city's railway area and the Duchesca and Vasto districts, the station features a large perforated teflon metal pergola providing shade to the underground square below, where ...
Among two other facilities in Naples, Naval Support Activity Naples is a tenant of several buildings in the Northwestern area of the airport. [74] The United States Navy handles military and civilian aircraft on this airport for logistics. [75] It is home to U.S. Naval Forces Europe and the U.S. Sixth Fleet.
Category: Railway stations in Naples. ... Napoli San Giovanni-Barra railway station This page was last edited on 8 July 2014, at 16:38 (UTC). Text ...
The Centro Direzionale station, designed by the EMBT studio (founded by architects Enric Miralles and Benedetta Tagliabue), will serve the business center of Naples, home to numerous public offices. The external part of the railway complex will occupy a central area of the island F, and will consist of a "wave" canopy: [2]