Description
Siena station, on Piazzale Carlo Rosselli below Porta Camollia, is the city's gateway by train and a piece of 1930s architecture: it was designed by the architect Angiolo Mazzoni and opened on November 25, 1935.
The clock tower rises over the square, while the staff housing building, on the side toward Empoli, has the light tower, a cylindrical, fully glazed stairwell on the corner. A few wooden benches from the period remain in the waiting room.
Its Futurism split the newspapers of the time: Ugo Ojetti wrote about it in scathing terms, Marinetti defended it. The concrete platform canopies were faced with pink glass tiles and had holes to let magnolias grow through.
The 1944 bombings destroyed the main building, rebuilt after the war in heavier forms. Mazzoni wrote that the rebuilders had stripped his creation of "all its Futurist spirit".
The clock tower rises over the square, while the staff housing building, on the side toward Empoli, has the light tower, a cylindrical, fully glazed stairwell on the corner. A few wooden benches from the period remain in the waiting room.
Its Futurism split the newspapers of the time: Ugo Ojetti wrote about it in scathing terms, Marinetti defended it. The concrete platform canopies were faced with pink glass tiles and had holes to let magnolias grow through.
The 1944 bombings destroyed the main building, rebuilt after the war in heavier forms. Mazzoni wrote that the rebuilders had stripped his creation of "all its Futurist spirit".