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The World's Most Beautiful Subway Stations
Published: 24 September 2023
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Prospekt Mira Station in Moscow, Russia
Fonvizinskaya Station in Moscow, Russia
Mayakovskaya Station in Moscow Russia
Avtovo Station in Saint Petersburg, Russia
Park Pobedy Station in Moscow, Russia
In 1933, the Soviet Union began construction work on what would become some of the world’s most beautiful subway stations. The Moscow Metro opened in 1935. Built mainly by hand, the train stations resemble a palace more than a place of transit. And they were palaces of a sort: they articulated, through architecture, the Soviet creed that the worker, not a king, queen or Tsar, reigned supreme. The irony—and tragedy—is that these palaces required the punishment of the very people they venerated: working conditions on these palatial subway sites were notoriously cruel.
Toledo Station in Naples, Italy
Materdei Station in Naples, Italy
Riyadh Station, Soudi Arabia
Museum Station in Toronto, Canada
Zoloti Vorota Station in Kiev, Ukraine
Bund Sightseeing Tunnel, Shanghai, China
Marienplatz Station in Munich, Germany
World Trade Center Transportation Hub in New York, United States
Fulton Transit Center in New York, United States
Union Station in Washington D.C., United States
Russia is not alone in beautiful subway stations—and not all share such a dark history. The popular perception of underground train stations as dirty and dusty and overrun with rats might account for most subway stations, but not all of them.
Formosa Boulevard Mass Rapid Transit Station in Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Central Park Mass Rapid Transit Station in Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Malostranska Station in Prague, Czech Republic
Botanical garden inside Atocha Station in Madrid, Spain
Arts et Metiers Station in Paris, France
Solna Subway Station in Stockholm, Sweden
Khalid Bin Al Waleed Station in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Canary Wharf Tube Station in London, United Kingdom
