This will be a quick post because there's not much to see or do around Bisceglie metro station. This station is the south western terminus of the Red Line 1. I am assuming the station and the street it is on are named after the beach town in Puglia.Being the terminus, the station opens up to a large parking garage for commuters. I started walking along Via Bisceglie to Via Teobaldo Ciconi (journalist, poet, and playwright, 1824-1864). My first impression of the area was that there are many vast fields of grass and that the whole area is very residential. On Via Ugo Pisa (politician, 1845-1910) there is a large project underway to rebuild the elementary school.
Probably the most impressive building in the neighbourhood is the San Giovanni Battista alla Crete church in the piazza of the same name. The church was designed by architect Giovanni Muzio and built in the middle of the 1950s. The fence around the church has the shape of the Duomo of Milan. Not far from the piazza, on Via della Capinera, is a craft and jewelry store called Fantasy Craft. Good to know, although a bit far from the center.
Another detail I noticed about the neighbourhood is that many of the streets are named after birds. For example, Via della Capinera is named after the blackcap. Other examples include, Via del Cardellino (goldfinch), Via del Usignolo (nightingale), Via Pettirosso (robin), and Via del Allodola (skylark). There you go, a mini-lesson in Italian bird names! Other streets are named after places in Switzerland, for example, Via Zurigo, Via Basilea, and Via Lucerna. A couple of streets, Via Val Devero and Via Valle Antigorio, are named after Alpine valleys in the region of Piedmont.
There is another large green space between Via Lucerna and Via Filippo Maria Beltrami (partisan and anti-fascist, 1908-1944) and perhaps a cascina at the corner of the two streets. I couldn't help but notice a Domino's Pizza at the corner of Via Creta and Via delle Martinella. There is a community garden between Via Paolo Bentivoglio (politician, 1894-1965) and Via Piero Colombi (journalist and editor, 1899-1960). There is another cascina at the corner of Via Veterbo and Via Basilea.
Due to all the old farmhouses, I guess that the area was established quite a long time ago. In fact, it dates back to 1346. The area is named after the Cascina Sella Nuova. More information can be found on urbanfile blog.
