Santa Maria Novella Station
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Firenze Santa Maria Novella
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View of the station building.
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| Location | Piazza della Stazione 50123 Firenze Italy |
| Coordinates | 43°46′34″N 11°14′53″E / 43.77611°N 11.24806°ECoordinates: 43°46′34″N 11°14′53″E / 43.77611°N 11.24806°E |
| Owned by | Rete Ferroviaria Italiana |
| Operated by | Grandi Stazioni |
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| Distance | 314.077 kilometres (195.158 mi) from Roma Termini |
| Platforms | 19 |
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| Architect | Gruppo Toscano |
| History | |
| Opened | 1848 |
| Rebuilt | 1934 |
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 Firenze Santa Maria Novella
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Firenze Santa Maria Novella (in English Florence Santa Maria Novella) or Stazione di Santa Maria Novella is a terminus railway station in Florence, Italy. The station is used by 59 million people every year and is one of the busiest in Italy.
It is at the northern end of the Florence–Rome direttissima, which was completed on 26 May 1992 and the southern end of the Bologna–Florence Direttissima, opened on 22 April 1934. A new high speed line to Bologna opened on 13 December 2009. The station is also used by regional trains on lines connecting to: Pisa, Livorno (Leopolda railway); Lucca, Viareggio (Viareggio–Florence railway); Bologna (Bologna–Florence railway) and Faenza (Faentina railway).
The station was inaugurated on 3 February 1848 to serve the railway to Pistoia and Pisa, and was initially called Maria Antonia (from the name of the railway, named in honour of Princess Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies); it was much closer to the Santa Maria Novella church than the current station. It was renamed after the church after the unification of Italy.
In 1932 through a number of newspaper editorials, published in La Nazione, Florence's main daily, Romano Romanelli a reputed and influential Florentine sculptor, criticized the original project by the Architect Mazzoni for the new Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station. A constructive debate resulted in the final choice of the project sponsored by the Architect Marcello Piacentini and designed by Gruppo Toscano.
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