Beneath Naples

In Naples, even getting around becomes an aesthetic experience. There’s an invisible line connecting the city’s ancient heart to its most visionary face. It’s not just public transport: it’s a moving museum. The Art Metro project has transformed the stations of Line 1 (and now also Line 6) into genuine underground galleries, where architecture, design, and contemporary art engage in dialogue with the city and its people.

In Naples, you walk on a threshold.
Every step, every square, every alley might conceal an opening below—towards another city: dark, silent, carved into stone and memory.
This is hypogeal Naples, the hidden belly of a metropolis that never ends, made of caves, cisterns, tunnels, crypts, catacombs, and ancient shelters.
Beneath the surface of Naples, it’s not just secrets that lie hidden: the city’s history is etched into the tuff.
A history that begins in the Greek era, flows through Roman engineering, and reaches the 20th century, transforming these cavities into aqueducts, wartime shelters, ossuaries, places of worship, storage spaces, and workshops of life.

Descend beneath the surface of Naples and discover its fascinating underground “metaverse” of tuff, carved over the centuries to build the city and to host ancient cults, secret refuges and stories of resilience.