From Toledo to Capodichino, 14 stations built by the Group and those being completed for Naples' sustainable mobility

Rome, March 26, 2024 – Webuild, in the historical setting of the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome, has inaugurated, today, the immersive installation "Building with Beauty: Naples' Artistic Stations", together with the opening of the public of the "Napoli Ottocento". 

Webuild's immersive room offers visitors a trip within Naples' Artistic Stations, many of which built by the Group: from the multi-awarded Toledo station, to Università, Dante, Museo, Materdei, San Pasquale, Monte Sant'Angelo, up to Capodichino station that will connect the city to the airport with the same name. Webuild's exhibit project goes along with the "Napoli Ottocento" exhibit, which celebrates the city as a place of artists and writers, testifying how art can integrate in our daily lives even through functional urban infrastructures. The Artistic Stations, transit nodes transformed into museum-like structures thanks to the approximately 200 contemporary art works, are the occasion for reflecting on an innovative idea of a city founded on the existing harmony between functionality and beauty.

Every station has its distinctive character, created by world-renowned architects, and narrated for the largest part through the photos of Edoardo Montaina. Toledo, built on a project by Catalan architect Óscar Tusquets Blanca, is a homage to light and the sea; Università was conceived by Anglo-Egyptian designer Karim Rashid and represents the knowledge of the Third Technological Revolution; Materdei, designed by Atelier Mendini, gave life once more the square on the surface.  And also the Dante and Museo stations, signed by Gae Aulenti, and the San Pasquale one, designed by architect Boris Podrecca, and Monte Sant’Angelo, where the art of Anish Kapoor interacts with urban architecture. The Capodichino station adds to the ones mentioned above. Designed by Ivan Harbour of Studio RSHP, it is a new example of what happens when beauty and engineering mix in the city, with the cylinder-shape inspired by St. Patrick's Well in Orvieto. 

The Webuild Group has built 14,140 km of railways and metros worldwide. It has been present in Campania since the 80's, with significant works like the Naples-Afragola high-speed station designed by archistar Zaha Hadid. Today, it is working on four sections of the Naples-Bari high-capacity railway line, which will allow to connect the two cities in just 2 hours, against the current 4 required today.

The sections are amongst the 19 projects that the Group is building today in the South of Italy, with almost 5,450 people already working (directly and indirectly). To support the construction of these projects, and more generally, to meet the need connected to Italy's infrastructural development, Webuild has also launched the "Cantiere Lavoro Italia" programme, which aims at hiring 10 thousand people by 2026 in the South of Italy, 88% in the South of Italy.

The initiative at the Scuderie del Quirinale is part of the Agenda Cultura programme created by the Group, which includes a set of events and initiatives worldwide, collaborating with institutional partners to support cultural development. The immersive exhibit in Australia on Leonardo da Vinci is amongst the Group's most recent initiatives in this respect. Since March 16 of this year, it has brought the Codex Atlanticus to Australia for the very first time, and the project for the artistic lighting for the requalification of the Crypt of Sant'Agnese in Piazza Navona in Rome, subject to partial restoration.