Overview

• The station officially opened on September 11, 2025, introducing a sculptural gateway in the Traiano district of Naples.
• Two contrasting entrances define the project: a weathering-steel portal swelling from the university plaza and a smooth tubular opening at Traiano.
• Interior treatment emphasizes material honesty, with weathering-steel cladding and deliberately raw tunnel walls.
• Kapoor’s concept ties the descent underground to Naples’ geology and mythology, invoking Mount Vesuvius and Dante’s Inferno.
• The work continues a program launched in the early 2000s under the motto ‘art, architecture and archaeology,’ with today’s inauguration reported to include Campania president Vincenzo De Luca and EAV president Umberto De Gregorio.