The most beautiful subways in the world they are real architectural and artistic masterpieces, which color with style and elegance the underlying parts of the road surface of the main European and non-European cities. Some are truly breathtaking because of the unique and unusual details, absolutely unexpected. We are used, in fact, that these passageways are dark and poorly cared for. Some of these will make us retrace our steps, making us live an unusual experience.
Between 15 most beautiful subways in the world there is an all Italian one. We are talking about the Toledo station in Naples, one of the stops on line 1 of the which is located in the district of San Giuseppe. The Daily Telegraph has consecrated it as the most beautiful in Europe. It was designed by the Spanish architect Óscar Tusquets. This is characterized by three hexagonal structures covered with blue and ocher colored tiles. There is a statue of William Kentridge titled The Knight of Toledo, made of Corten steel, while the interior boasts large mosaics by Kentridge and made by the mosaicist Costantino Aureliano Buccolieri. Also in Naples there is University Metro Station, where there are artistic and colorful representations inspired by the myths of the literature of the past, such as Dante Alighieri.
In Russia, in Moscow, there are stations of Kievskaya, Mayakovskaya and Pobedy Park, which leave you breathless, but also the one in the deco style of St.Petersburg, the Avtovo Metro Station, can only leave all visitors speechless. There Solna, the one in Stockholm, offers a refined style, with red walls with a cave effect and a colored skyline on the lower part; always in the same city there is also there Kungstradgarden Metro Station with cave walls, the T-Centralen Station, with oversized designs on white marble and bluette walls and the Stadion Station with colored representations. In London, in the district of Westminster, the style of the subway with a futuristic flavor is particularly striking, characterized by steel gray beams and accessories.
Arts Et Métiers Station in Paris is another underground design masterpiece and the same goes for the Bund Sightseeing Tunnel in Shanghai, China, a long modern gallery on the shades of blue. There Formosa Boulevard Station in Kaohsiung, in Taiwan, has a ceiling and columns with bright and unique shades. In Budapest there is Tilework In Szent Gellért Square, with multicolor pixel effect mosaic walls.
Among the cities with the most beautiful subways in the world, New York could not be missing with its own City Hall Station while in Portugal, in Lisbon, you will be enchanted by Olaias Station. in our ranking is missing that of Munich, with inspired by Kubrick, which we still recommend you to go and see if you pass through the city. Browse our gallery and look at all the stations subways to visit absolutely.