Telecom Italia Tower (Naples)
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The Telecom Italia Tower is a 129-metre high skyscraper located in the business district of Naples
Naples
Naples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...

, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

. It is currently the second tallest skyscraper in Italy after Palazzo Lombardia
Palazzo Lombardia
Palazzo Lombardia is a skyscraper in Milan, Italy, designed to be the Lombardy regional government's new seat.It is currently the tallest building in Italy....

 in Milan
Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...

. It has been, for 15 years, the highest building in Italy, surpassing by 2 meters the Pirelli Tower
Pirelli Tower
The Pirelli Tower , is a skyscraper in Milan, Italy.-History:...

 in Milan, that held the title from 1960 to 1995.

Description

The complex has a central tower and two low rises that surround it, making the structure more detail and seemingly at the height of the tower by cutting which may seem less high than the real measurements. It is located north of the center directional and is covered in mirrored glass on all sides.

Front has two pylons lined white panels that comprise the body of the elevators and stairs. By the middle is placed a panoramic balcony that looks like a black horizontal cut on the front, but often do not notice because it is a little higher up the roof of the body low. This feature is also present in two other places in the tower back up, almost at the top, occupying almost the whole plan, and always back to the same position on the façade of the overview, or the middle of the skyscraper.

Also, watching the sides of the tower, you notice another peculiarity of the structure, or the indentations in glass and different levels of the roof in these sides. It is clearly visible, along with everything the Center office space (including residential towers) and the Ring Road in Naples, from the surrounding hills and from different parts of town, port and the Napoli Centrale railway station
Napoli Centrale railway station
Napoli Centrale is the main railway station in the city of Naples and southern Italy and the sixth largest station in Italy in terms of passenger flow. It is located next to Piazza Garibaldi to the east of the old city...

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