Centro direzionale di Napoli

The Centro direzionale is a business district in Naples, Italy close to the Napoli Centrale railway station.

The district’s origins date back to the mid-sixties, when the Municipality of Naples identified an abandoned industrial area of approximately 110 hectares (270 acres) to be used for the construction of a new neighborhood, mainly for office use, to relieve congestion in the city center.

Below this main street there are numerous parking lots, escalators and road arteries serving the traffic connecting the most peripheral part of the architectural complex with the city centre.

Seen from the Vomero hill, the entire complex appears in marked contrast to the antiquities of the historic centre of Naples and with Vesuvius in the background.

Inspired by the ideas of Le Corbusier,[4] represents a first positive example of clear separation between underground car traffic and surface pedestrian area.

Although the structure is entirely within the Poggioreale district, there is a Polizia di Stato station called "Vasto - Arenaccia".

The center is accessible from Via Giovanni Porzio, a road that runs from Corso Malta to Corso Meridionale, making a corner with this and Via Taddeo da Sessa: this is the main entrance to the district, so much so that the most used address for correspondence is "via Giovanni Porzio, 4.” This number seems to be arbitrary, because it is not posted anywhere and because on the office building on the same side of the street there is nothing.