Very Unusual Subway
Stockholm Metro is often called the longest art gallery world. About 90 of the 100 underground stations provide visitors the opportunity to get acquainted with the work of different types and directions of art.
Here and fabulous grottoes and statues, and the corners of classical architecture, and wall reliefs, mosaics, graffiti and even a video installation. In the subway frequently organized the exhibition. His work provided the Stockholm subway several hundred artists. Formerly, the state invested annually in the underground gallery of about $ 1.5 million.
Total Stockholms tunnelbana consist of three lines: blue, red and green. All three lines converge at T-centralen, where the central railway station, central bus station. Even this place is called Stockholm C. From here you can go to any place in Stockholm, Sweden, Scandinavia, as well as any airport and from there around the world.
There is one feature of the escalators. Let’s say you arrive at some distant station, and want to go upstairs. You approach the escalator, but it does not work. And around anyone. In this case, you just need to go to the escalator and he turns on himself. In addition to the escalators here are the elevators, escalators that duplicate and are actively used by people with wheelchairs. It happens that the elevator goes straight to the surface. It looks unusual – in the middle of the sidewalk is a glass booth. It comes to a man and goes down.
Station Radhuset – “Town Hall”. One of the outputs. The station is framed as though there were excavated and dug up the giant columns, stood here in antiquity.
Station Stadion. Located in the Ostermalm, near the Olympic stadium.
Station Nackrosen – “Water Lily”. The ceiling and walls decorated the station as a pond with stones and water lilies.
Works Stockholms tunnelbana from 5.00 to 1.00 on Fridays and Saturdays until 4.00. The fare has its own peculiarities. Stockholm is divided into 3 territorial areas of transportation, and tickets are valid for all areas of transport within 1 hour. Tickets can be purchased from the controller station, in the SL-center, kiosks, network Pressbyra, at ticket vending machines available at bus stops, or by phone through SMS. Also you can buy for 100 euros a special travel card that allows travel on all modes of transport for 24 hours. At the entrance to the subway are familiar to us turnstiles, but they are adapted only for owners of travel. All the other passengers pass through the corridor next to a glass cockpit controller, acquiring or kompostiruya advance purchased ticket from him.
