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National Railway Museum of Pietrarsa

The National Railway Museum of Pietrarsa is close to the Naples–Portici railway. The museum is housed in what was originally the 'Bourbon works' Officine di Pietrarsa, founded in 1840 on the orders of Ferdinand II of Bourbon to build steam engines for ships and boilers for locomotives.
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  • Email: museopietrarsa@fondazionefs.it
  • Type: Museum
  • Description: an Italian museum near Naples, devoted to the history of trains in Italy
  • Also known as: “Museo Nazionale Ferroviario di Pietrarsa”, “Opificio di Pietrarsa”, “Pietrarsa railway museum”, “Reale Opificio Borbonico di Pietrarsa”, and “The National Railway Museum of Pietrarsa”
  • Address: Via Pietrarsa, Napoli, 80146

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Pietrarsa-San Giorgio a Cremano railway halt and Napoli San Giovanni–Barra railway station.

Railway stop
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is a railway stop.

Railway station
Photo: George Woes JR, CC BY 3.0.
Napoli San Giovanni–Barra is a railway station served by the railway Line 2 of as one of its terminus. is situated 2 km northwest of National Railway Museum of Pietrarsa.

Historic building
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is a historic building, which is situated 1½ km southeast of National Railway Museum of Pietrarsa.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include San Giorgio a Cremano and Portici.

Town
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is a city and comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples, in the region of . It is located on the foothills of to the west of the volcano and the , and is five kilometres to the south east of the centre of .

Town
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is a town and municipality of the Metropolitan City of Naples in the region of in . It has 51,351 inhabitants.

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is an eastern quarter of , southern Italy, with a population of some 40,000 inhabitants occupies the easternmost section of the Naples comune's territory, ranging from the sea to the Vesuvio's slopes, bounding with .

National Railway Museum of Pietrarsa

Latitude
40.82198° or 40° 49′ 19″ north
Longitude
14.3202° or 14° 19′ 13″ east
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
Operator
Fondazione F.S.
Open location code
8FGPR8CC+Q3
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1025270923
Open­Street­Map feature
railway=­museum
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Geo­Names ID
10627069
Wiki­data ID
Q832707
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “National Railway Museum of Pietrarsa”. Photo: Reinhard Dietrich, Public domain.