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Napoli Centrale Railway Station
Napoli Centrale (''Naples Central Station'') () is the main railway station in the city of Naples and in southern Italy and the sixth largest station in Italy in terms of passenger flow with an annual ridership of 50 million. It is located next to Piazza Garibaldi to the east of the old city. It is the primary rail terminus and station for Naples, and serves Trenitalia national railways and EAV. This one has an underground section known as ''Stazione di Napoli Piazza Garibaldi'' (Naples Garibaldi Piazza station), which is served by the metropolitan trains of the Line 2 (Naples metro), line 2, Naples Metro, line 1 (Garibaldi), and 3, 12, 14, and 15 ''Ente Autonomo Volturno, EAV Circumvesuviana'' lines which is accessible from 2 entrances inside the ''Centrale'' station, 1 outside in glass, and from the new Garibaldi Square. History 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 curre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Napoli
Naples ( ; ; ) is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 908,082 within the city's administrative limits as of 2025, while its province-level municipality is the third most populous metropolitan city in Italy with a population of 2,958,410 residents, and the eighth most populous in the European Union. Its metropolitan area stretches beyond the boundaries of the city wall for approximately . Naples also plays a key role in international diplomacy, since it is home to NATO's Allied Joint Force Command Naples and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean. Founded by Greeks in the first millennium BC, Naples is one of the oldest continuously inhabited urban areas in the world. In the eighth century BC, a colony known as Parthenope () was established on the Pizzofalcone hill. In the sixth century BC, it was refounded as Neápolis. The city was an important part of Magna Graecia, played a major ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Railway Station
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of land transport, next to road transport. It is used for about 8% of passenger and rail freight transport, freight transport globally, thanks to its Energy efficiency in transport, energy efficiency and potentially high-speed rail, high speed.Rolling stock on rails generally encounters lower friction, frictional resistance than rubber-tyred road vehicles, allowing rail cars to be coupled into longer trains. Power is usually provided by Diesel locomotive, diesel or Electric locomotive, electric locomotives. While railway transport is capital intensity, capital-intensive and less flexible than road transport, it can carry heavy loads of passengers and cargo with greater energy efficiency and safety. Precursors of railways driven by human or an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi ( , ;In his native Ligurian language, he is known as (). In his particular Niçard dialect of Ligurian, he was known as () or (). 4 July 1807 – 2 June 1882) was an Italian general, revolutionary and republican. He contributed to Italian unification (Risorgimento) and the creation of the Kingdom of Italy. He is considered to be one of Italy's " fathers of the fatherland", along with Camillo Benso di Cavour, King Victor Emmanuel II and Giuseppe Mazzini. Garibaldi is also known as the "Hero of the Two Worlds" because of his military enterprises in South America and Europe. Garibaldi was a follower of the Italian nationalist Mazzini and embraced the republican nationalism of the Young Italy movement. He became a supporter of Italian unification under a democratic republican government. However, breaking with Mazzini, he pragmatically allied himself with the monarchist Cavour and Kingdom of Sardinia in the struggle for independence, subordinati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppe Vaccaro
Giuseppe Vaccaro (Bologna, 30 April 1896 – Rome, 11 September 1970) was an Italian architect. Life and career Born in Bologna on 30 April 1896, Vaccaro graduated from the city's Academy of Fine Arts. He later worked as an assistant to Attilio Muggia. One of his earliest works was the design of the Palazzo delle Poste in Naples. Much of his work was in a Rationalist style. Notable examples include the Casa del Fascio in Vergato, the Ex-Cooperativa tra Invalidi e Mutilati di Guerra in Bologna (1929) and the Faculty of Engineering in Bologna (1931-35). Vaccaro was one of the architects chosen to submit an urban plan for Italian-occupied Addis Ababa. He also worked on plans for the EUR district of Rome and, together with Gino Franzi, was one of the finalists in the competition to design the Anıtkabir - the mausoloeum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in Ankara. He remained a popular architect after the War. One of his first commissions was the reconstruction of the historical center of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luigi Piccinato
Luigi Piccinato (30 October 1899 – 29 July 1983) was an Italian architect and town planner. Works * ''Urbanistica medioevale'', Florence, 1943 * Napoli Centrale railway station, Naples, 1954 * Stadio Adriatico, Pescara, 1955 * A-Block Apartment Buildings in the First Section of Ataköy, Istanbul, 1957 * ''La strada come strumento di progettazione urbanistica'', Rome Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and most populated (municipality) of Italy. It is also the administrative centre of the Lazio Regions of Italy, region and of the Metropolitan City of Rome. A special named with 2, ..., 1960 Bibliography * Cesare de Sessa, ''Luigi Piccinato, architetto'', Dedalo libri, Bari 1985 * Federico Malusardi, ''Luigi Piccinato e l'urbanistica moderna'', Officina, Roma 1993 * Elio Franzin, ''Luigi Piccinato e l'antiurbanistica a Padova 1927-1974'' con alcuni scritti padovani di Luigi Piccinato, Ed. Il prato, Saonara (PD), 2005 * ''Luigi Piccinato: Il "Mome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giulio De Luca
Giulio () is an Italian given name. It is also used as a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name A–K * Giulio Alberoni (1664–1752), Italian cardinal and statesman * Giulio Alenio (1582–1649), Italian Jesuit missionary and scholar * Giulio Alfieri (1924–2002), Italian automobile engineer * Giulio Andreotti (1919–2013), Italian politician * Giulio Carlo Argan (1909–1992), Italian politician and art historian * Giulio Base (born 1964), Italian film director * Giulio Berruti (born 1984), Italian film and television actor * Giulio Bizzozero (1846–1901), Italian physician * Giulio Bosetti (1930–2009), Italian actor and director * Giulio Brogi (1935–2019), Italian actor * Giulio Caccini ( 1545–1618), Florentine composer, significant innovator of the early Baroque era * Giulio Calì (1895–1967), Italian actor * Giulio Camillo ( 1480–1544), Italian philosopher * Giulio Campagnola ( 1482–1515), Italian painter * Giulio Campi (1500–1572), Ital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Zevi
Bruno Zevi (22 January 1918 – 9 January 2000) was an Italian architect, historian, professor, curator, author, and editor. Zevi was a vocal critic of "classicizing" modern architecture and postmodernism. Early life Zevi was born and died in Rome. His family was Italian Jewish. On finishing school in 1933, he enrolled at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Rome. Due to the anti-Semitic laws, Zevi was forced in 1938 to abandon his studies, and so left for London, UK, before moving to the United States. Zevi graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, then under the directorship of Walter Gropius. In 1940 he married Italian journalist and writer Tullia Calabi. While in the US he discovered the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, which became one of the bases for his championing of organic architecture. Zevi returned to London in 1943, working as a translator in the war effort. Association for Organic Architecture In 1944, he founded the influential Associa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massimo Battaglini
Massimo () is a masculine Italian given name. Notable people with the name include: * Massimo Agostinelli (Max Agos) (born 1987), Swiss-based Italian American artist, entrepreneur and activist * Massimo Agostini (born 1964), Italian football manager and former striker * Massimo Alioto (born 1972), associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore * Massimo Allevi (born 1969), former Italian pole vaulter * Massimo Ambrosini Cavaliere OMRI (born 1977), Italian former professional footballer * Massimo De Ambrosis (born 1964), Italian actor and voice actor * Massimo Amfiteatrof (1907–1990), Russian-born Italian cellist * Paolo Massimo Antici (1924–2003), Italian diplomat, founder of the Antici Group * Massimo Aparo (born 1953), Italian nuclear engineer * Massimo Apollonio (born 1970), former Italian racing cyclist * Massimo Ardinghi (born 1971), former professional tennis player from Italy * Massimo Arduini (born 1960), Itali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Cocchia
Carlo is a given name. It is an Italian form of Charles. It can refer to: *Carlo (name) *Monte Carlo *Carlingford, New South Wales, a suburb in north-west Sydney, New South Wales, Australia *A satirical song written by Dafydd Iwan about Prince Charles. *A former member of Dion and the Belmonts best known for his 1964 song, Ring A Ling. *Carlo (submachine gun), an improvised West Bank gun. * Carlo, a fictional character from Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp * It can be confused with Carlos * Carlo means “man” (from Germanic “karal”), “free man” (from Middle Low German “kerle”) and “warrior”, “army” (from Germanic “hari”). See also *Carl (name) *Carle (other) *Carlos (given name) Carlos is a masculine given name, and is the Maltese, Portuguese and Spanish variant of the English name ''Charles'', from the North Germanic '' Carl''. Royalty *Carlos I of Portugal (1863–1908), second to last King of Portugal *Charles V, ... {{disambig Italian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enrico Alvino
Enrico Alvino (1809–1872) was an Italian architect and urban designer, particularly active in Naples in the mid-19th century. He was born in Milan, and died in Rome. Works Among his important works in Naples are: *façade of the church of Santa Maria di Piedigrotta (1853); *laid out (with others) the street, Corso Maria Teresa, today named Corso Vittorio Emanuele (between 1852 and 1860), finished in 1870; *planned the restoration of the façade of the Cathedral of Naples, completed in 1870; *redesigned the Santa Lucia quarter in 1862; *redesigned (with others) the Villa Comunale; *converted the ancient convent of San Giovanni a Costantinopoli into the Royal Academy of Fine Arts; In Catania, he helped complete the Palazzo Paternò del Toscano in Piazza Stesicoro. Bibliography * Emilio Lavagnino, ALVINO, Enrico' in ''Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani'', II volume, Rome, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana Institute Giovanni Treccani for the publication of the Itali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ente Autonomo Volturno
The Ente Autonomo Volturno Società a responsabilità limitata, S.r.l., also known by the acronym EAV, is a company that operates in the sector of public transport by road, rail and cableway, in the Campania Region. It was born in 1904 on the initiative of the Naples, municipality of Naples as an independent body for the construction and management of a hydroelectric plant on the Volturno river, completed in 1909 and operational since 1916. Subsequently the body entered various other sectors including that of public transport with the purchase, in 1931, of the Azienda Tramviaria of the Municipality of Naples. Subsequently, it performed the tasks of contracting station and group which included railway and automobile transport operators as well as cable cars, such as Circumvesuviana, MetroCampania NordEst and SEPSA. In 2012, on the initiative of the Campania Region, it incorporated the aforementioned companies, taking over the management of services as both Railway infrastructure ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naples Metro
The Naples Metro () is a rapid transit system serving the city of Naples, Campania, Italy and some parts of the adjacent ''Comune, comuni'' of its Naples metropolitan area, metropolitan area through Naples–Aversa railway, Line 11. The system comprises three underground rapid transit lines (Line 1 (Naples Metro), Line 1, Line 6 (Naples Metro), Line 6 and Line 11 (Naples Metro), Line 11). It is the third largest underground network in Italy, behind Milan Metro, Milan and Rome Metro, Rome. The Metro comprises three lines – Line 1 (Naples Metro), 1 (yellow), Line 6 (Naples Metro), 6 (blue) and Line 11 (Naples Metro), 11 (rainbow or orange) – which operate on of route, serving 30 stations.Counting the interchange stations between lines only once. It has a daily ridership of approximately 115,000 passengers, and an annual traffic of approximately 45 million passengers. In addition to the Metro, the central area of Naples and its surrounding urban region are served by eight ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
