Amazing Underground (39 photos)

Stockholm Subway (Stockholms tunnelbana) is often called the longest art gallery world.
About 90 of the 100 metro stations offer visitors the opportunity to get acquainted with the work of
Representatives of various kinds and art directions. Here and fabulous grottoes
(many stations cut into the rocks as the cave), and sculpture, and the corners of classical architecture,
and wall reliefs, mosaics, graffiti and even video installations. In the subway often hosts exhibitions.
His work of the Stockholm subway provide several hundreds of artists.
In the past year the government has invested in the underground gallery of about $ 1, 5 million.






Station T-Centralen.



The walls are painted blue, painted blue arches image branches with leaves and silhouettes of construction workers.



Total Stockholms tunnelbana consists of three lines: Blue (Bla Linjen), Red (Roda linjen) and Green (Grona linjen). All three lines converge at T-centralen, where the main railway station (Central Station), the central bus station (CityTerminalen).



More it's called Stockholm C. From here you can go to any place in Stockholm, Sweden, Scandinavia, as well as in any airport (by train, bus) and from there all over the world.



Immortalized metro builders.



The station Vreten. The rocks, which cut down the station, decorated with sky blue cubes sticking out of the floor, walls and ceiling.



The time remaining before the arrival of the train, is displayed on the scoreboard.



The station Solna centrum.



One of the most colorful and contrasting stations. Painted in bright red and green color.



Theme stations - as people cut down the forest and build in its place their lives on the one side of the station is painted a lot of wood in the middle of his massively cut down and houses being built, and at the other end had people live and work.



There is one feature of escalators. Let's say you come to some distant station and want to go upstairs. You approach the escalator, but it is not working. And nobody around. In this case, you just need to go to the escalator and he will turn himself.



Station Kungstradgarden - «Royal Gardens." Framed cave paintings in the style of "Hall of the Mountain King."



Station Hallonbergen decorated with images in the style of children's drawings.































In addition there are escalators lifts, escalators are duplicates and which are widely used by people with strollers graco and other manufacturers.



It happens that the elevator goes directly to the surface. It looks unusual - in the middle of the sidewalk is a glass booth. It comes and goes down the people.



Getting lost in the Stockholm metro man conquering the Moscow subway, it is simply impossible.



Everywhere hang quite intelligible signs, but read them at first need to carefully transplant possible in the spirit of China Town.



Furthermore, it should be clearly remembered that the lines have a property divided into several areas. Theoretically, there is a nonzero probability in going to sit on the commuter train (Pendeltag), but to do it in their right mind is very difficult.





The names of the stations to announce a pleasant female voice.



Powered Stockholms tunnelbana from 5.00 to 1.00, on Fridays and Saturdays until 4.00.



Payment of travel has its own peculiarities. Stockholm is divided into three territorial traffic zone, and zone tickets are valid for all modes of transport for 1 hour. Tickets can be purchased at the Comptroller metro station, in the center of the SL-in kiosks network Pressbyra, ticket machines available at bus stops, or on the phone via SMS (1 ticket costs 20 kroner - 2, $ 6).



You can also buy for CZK 100 special tourist ticket, which allows travel on all modes of transport 24 hours. At the entrance to the subway are familiar to us turnstiles, but they are adapted only for owners of travel. All other passengers pass through an automatic gate next to the glass cockpit controller, acquiring or pre-purchased ticket punching him.



Avant-garde installation at one of the stations