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Mantova

Mantua, one of the most important Renaissance cities, was the seat of the celebrated Gonzaga family. It was added to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in July 2008.

Rimini, new seafront

The new seafront of Rimini is illuminated with a great R. This is not a simple line of graphic design, nor is it the expression of a search for an original subject.

Milano Marittima

Milano Marittima is one of the most famous seaside resorts on the Romagna Riviera. As well as for its sea, it is celebrated for the very long pine grove.

Though Misano Adriatico is counted among the major seaside resorts of the Romagna Riviera, it also extends towards the hills, which offer abundant green spaces and an important nature reserve on the Conca river.

Chelsea Barracks, London

Chelsea Barracks is currently the largest development site in the SW1 zone and is the most sought-after quarter in London.

Enna, restoration and reproductin

Enna rises in the centre of Sicily, at an altitude of almost 1.000 metres. The city was called Urbs Inexpugnabilis by the Romans, on account of its impregnability. It has also been called the ‘belly bottom’ of Sicily, because of its central geographical position in the island, and Belvedere of Sicilia, for the panoramic views it offers in various directions.

Genzano

Genzano, a short distance away from Rome, is located on the brow of the crater of the volcanic lake of Nemi. Genzano is famous for its flower festival, which so splendidly decorates the steps leading to the Sanctuary of Santa Maria della Cima.

San Nicola Arcella

The recent lighting design that has transformed it has been described to us by the architect, Giampiero Lepreti. It was he himself who described it to us, accompanying us in the historic centre and at the magnificent belvedere.

Aerocity, New Dheli

The modern and sometimes futuristic buildings make this new site a truly unique space where you can catch a glimpse of India’s future development.

Palermo, restoration and lighting

Palermo is one of the most beautiful cities in southern Italy. Its long history has seen many civilisations and peoples, from Phoenicians to Carthaginians, from Romans to Saracens and Normans to Bourbons, who enriched it with considerable artistic and architectural heritage.

Giardini Reali, Venice

Restoration of the cast iron lamp posts and pergola in the Royal Gardens of Venice

Goa

In a city with a strong focus on tourism, the Neri products chosen included the most modern and contemporary shapes, however the more classic shapes were not entirely excluded, especially for historical sites such as temples.

Amalfi Coast

The Amalfi Coast is undoubtedly one of the Italy’s most famous locations, thanks to its natural beauty. A UNESCO World Heritage site, it takes its name from the town of Amalfi, the beating heart of the coastline not only geographically, but historically too.

Gateway, Mumbai

The Gateway of India overlooks the port of Mumbai and the Arabian Sea, and is one of India’s most unique landmarks. The monument was erected in 1924 to commemorate King George V and Queen Mary’s visit to Bombay.

Chhatrapati Shivaji Station, Mumbai

Mumbai train station was originally called Victoria Terminus in honour of Queen Victoria who was the ruler at that time. In 1996, the station was renamed after the seventeenth-century warrior king Chhatrapati Shivaji.

Bluwaters, Dubai

To light the streets of Bluewaters, Neolight Global asked Neri for a modern steel lamp post that integrated well with an architecture that favours steel, glass and stone.

Fenice Udine

The city of Udine is located in the centre of the Friulian region. A dozen or so kilometres from both Slovenia and Austria, it is strategically positioned in the crossroads of busy European routes.

Neri in India

Neri’s presence on the Indian market began in 2012. Over the years, it has strengthened its position and spread throughout the country.

Light Alya, Campagna

In Campagna in the Salerno province stands the San Martino convent, built in the XVI century by the Capuchin friars in an optimum position for sunshine, for healthy air and for the view that can still be enjoyed today.

Venosa

Venosa, in Basilicata, is considered one of Italy’s most beautiful villages. The city was founded in the year 291 BC by the Romans, who dedicated it to Venus.

Arcireale

Acireale rises above the sea on the slopes of Etna, on a plateau originally created by volcanic lava. Its history goes back to Ancient Greece and mythology narrates that Polyphemus once lived here. It is famous for its Carnival.

Favignana veranda restoration

The island of Favignana also became a popular holiday destination and in 1874, the Florio family built their villa overlooking the tuna factory.

Chiavari restoration

The city of Chiavari overlooks the Ligurian Sea of the Western Riviera to the east of Genoa. The Chiavari historic centre can be considered one of the best conserved and preserved areas in the district.

Stresa

Stresa is a celebrated tourist resort on Lago Maggiore and is one of the most visited places in Piedmont.

Fenice, Prato

Prato is located few kilometres away from Florence. Since the Middle Ages, the production of textile products has always had a central role in the economy of Prato, and in 19th century the city used to be called ‘the Manchester of Tuscany’. Nowadays, Prato is still one of the main European
textile centres.

Fenice Rapallo

Just a short distance from Genoa, right from half of the 19th Century Rapallo has been an international tourist destination. This due to its gulf, mild weather and rich surrounding vegetation.

Piazzale Michelangelo, Florence

Piazzale Michelangelo is the most panoramic place in Florence. It is a marvellous space with one of the most beautiful panoramas in the world.

Portici reproduction

Portici rises up from the slopes of the western face of Vesuvius and occupies a small area of land along the coast of the Bay of Naples.

Centergross, Bologna

Centergross works as a true city of commerce. In the late nineteen-sixties, the urban structure of the city of Bologna was going through a time of great transformation and the heavy increase of city traffic was already beginning to create problems for the expansion of the wholesale business operations and for the city.

Light 103, Firenze

The city of Florence is surrounded by striking hills, crossed by a maze of narrow lanes where only one vehicle can pass at a time. A magical place, little known but much loved by the Florentine people.

Rennes

Rennes is the capital of Brittany. Known for its mediaeval timber and stone houses, it boasts one of the most beautiful parks in France: the Parc du Thabor.

Canazei

Based on project by the Gran Studio Villa Triste, Canazei was illuminated with a lamp post designed by architect Pietro Zulian.

Crema

In the historic centre, the old Neri lanterns installed in the past were mounted with the new Refitting kit recently designed in the company’s laboratories.

Marketplace, Delft

Halfway between The Hague and Rotterdam, Delft is an important Dutch city that rose up in the 12th century along the recently-built Delf canal.

Longiano

In Longiano, the lighting was done by Neri following the request of the architects, who asked for a simple object with 4 lights. The lighting fixture that has been chosen is ‘Light 37’.

Turin Restoration

Neri’s collaboration with the city of Turin and AEM, started many years ago. It has developed over time through many different projects, several collaborations undertaken to respond to several different needs that the city has presented to Neri at different times.

Half Penny Bridge, Dublin

Today, the Dublin Half Bridge lanterns are white, which was the original colour of the entire metal structure, and the model used is the ‘Light 801’ by Neri.

Busseto

In Busseto, the same lanterns, which were previously equipped with sodium vapor lamps, were refitted with an LED kit designed specifically by Neri.

Via Cesare Battisti, Cesena

According to the design by architect Marco Casamonti, Neri realized a lamp post with a strong personality. It has been designed for Cesare Battisti street, one of the main street of the city of Cesena.

Trieste Restoration

Neri restored and reproduced the lamp posts chosen to light up the promenade and the city’s most important squares, thus creating a harmonious and coordinated project.

Foundry

This presentation shows the different production steps of a new lamppost base, specifically conceived for an important leisure park project.

Fenice Sanremo

In Sanremo Neri has created a specially designed LED kit that was installed inside the existing lanterns.

Saiph

Saiph was designed by Alfredo Farnè. The system has a two-part aluminum base with specific slots designed to hold decorative lighting modules available in green, yellow or blue. The top is formed by two parallel arms angled downwards.

Dubai Parks

Neri products have enhanced various areas of Dubai Parks. The project called for a different type of product for each of these.

Adriatic Coast

Over the years, Neri restored all the posts, which were often similar, of the following italian cities: Cesenatico, Pesaro, Fano, Senigallia, Ancona and Loreto.

Sassoferrato and Corinaldo

The public lighting design, created by Neri, covered the town of Sassoferrato and Corinaldo, using various solutions according to the places lit.

Verona catenary mounted

Verona, like many other cities, has replaced the old catenary mounted luminaires suspended in the middle of the roads. The old lighting fixtures have been replaced with Neri ‘Light 34’.

Cortina d'Ampezzo

Cortina d’Ampezzo is nicknamed the ‘Queen of the Dolomites’. To illuminate it, a custom product was created, drawing from historic research.

Chara

Chara is designed by Studio ATA, won the Neri Award and was selected for the ‘Compasso d'Oro’ Award in 2006.

Rigel, Messina

Rigel system, designed by Alfredo Farnè, was conceived for streets with a predominantly urban traffic. Its shape is characterized by a simple and linear bracket and the cast iron decoration that adorns the base.

Bridges

In Rome and Venice, Neri’s lampposts had to establish a dialogue with bridges, such transparent and dynamic structures, in a fortunate combination between classical and contemporary forms.

Etihad Museum, Dubai

For the Union House lighting, ‘Light 106’ was chosen, which recalls the design of the original lamp posts.

Lighting implementation

The luminaires that are most often replaced with new products are the spheres that, from the 1970s to 2000, have literally taken over our coastlines, urban gardens and many city centres.

Refitting kit projects

In its laboratories, Neri created an IP66-grade LED module with tin programmable power supply. Its high technology can even be used in luminaires installed 50 years ago that would otherwise be incompatible with LED technology.

Restoration of Pavia lanterns

Neri, in partnership with Enel Sole, restored the universities’ original lanterns which crowned the railing lining three medieval towers. It is a place of great charm.

Restoration Verona

Neri was chosen to preserve the historical cast iron lamp posts of Verona that at the beginning of the twentieth century were realised to light and decorate the old town centre, from ‘Piazza Erbe’ and ‘Piazza Bra’ up to the bridge of Castelvecchio sull’Adige.

Reproduction Lucca

The City of Lucca asked Neri to reconstruct the models and reproduce the lampposts to reinstate the historical lighting system, adequately lighting an area fequented by the citizens.

Restoration of Cannaregio lantern

For over a century now, a light shines out to sea from a large iron lantern which, considering its size, has probably always operated as a lighthouse. This unique structure has, over recent months, been restored in the Neri SpA restoration workshops.

Restoration Venice fish market

Restoration of the 10 original lanterns that have illuminated the fish market for a century was entrusted to Neri SpA.

Piazza Trento e Trieste, Ferrara

Piazza Trento e Trieste, the central square next to the cathedral, has been lit using bespoke 1900 columns with ‘Light 23’.

Piazza Cittadella, Verona

‘Light 106’ with a 45W Cosompolis globe were chosen for lighting and furnishing purposes. On the edge of the square, near the entrances to the car park, we used high posts with two swan neck brackets, and ‘Light 23’ with 140W Cosmopolis globe.

Restoration Nizza

In ‘place Masséna’ in Nice, Neri’s task was to reproduce 44 steel and cast iron posts with an original shape dating back to the years between the two World Wars.

Senigallia, piazza Garibaldi

Piazza Garibaldi in Senigallia was recently inaugurated after a major transformation which has returned it to its original state. This included restoring the buildings overlooking it, installing new paving and lighting with Neri Nashira system lamp posts with 'Light 600'.

Neri and theatres

Neri is proud of having worked with so many theatres in Italy and in the world. Among the most famous there are La Scala in Milan, La Fenice in Venice and teatro Massimo in Palermo.

Fenice Grado

Grado is a town in the north-eastern Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, located on an island and adjacent peninsula of the Adriatic Sea between Venice and Trieste.

Fenice San Severo

San Severo is a ‘comune’ in the province of Foggia, Puglia, south-eastern Italy. Rising on the foot of the spur of Gargano, San Severo is a center for mercantile and agricultural traditions.

Darsena, Milan

The Darsena, built in the 17th century, is closely related to the Naviglio Grande, a unique work of medieval hydraulic engineering in Europe which characterised environment, life, transport and commerce in Milan.

Paris restauration, Place du Louvre

In ‘place du Louvre’, which host the pyramid of the homonymous museum, Neri has reproduced some of the posts and bronze lanterns placed along the ‘Court Carrée’.

Light Archilede S

Archilede includes design, performance and energy saving in a single street lighting system.

Reggio Emilia Restoration, Teatro Valli

The Municipal Theatre of Reggio Emilia is located on one of the most significant town squares. The theatre building was constructed between 1852 and 1857, with a neoclassical façade on two stories.

Shopping centers in California

The function of the Historic Center that characterizes all European cities, large and small, finds in the shopping center a modernized replica of the social evolution of the second half of the 20th century.

Griffin Ranch, La Quinta

Griffin Ranch is a charming residence in La Quinta, located in Riverside County, California.

The Grove, Los Angeles

The Grove is located in Fairfax, in the west of the city of Los Angeles. This area, which has always been inhabited by the Jewish community, is a perfect mix of old and new.

Simi Valley Town Center, California

Simi Valley Town Center in California is a shopping center structured around a central pedestrian street lined with shops of all kinds and three different squares.

The Village and The Park, Irvine

The Village and The Park in Irvine are two examples of urban excellence. They are located not far from Los Angeles.

Gambettola

Neri helped the architects of ‘Studio 2P Architettura’ from Lucca (Tuscany) to realise their custom project for Gambettola. Syrma system has been chosen to light Gambettola while Lilium series to furnish it, with some elements from Carya and Idesia.

Fenice Manduria

Spectrum Center, Irvine

The Irvine Spectrum Center was inaugurated in 1995 and, over twenty years, was gradually extended in 1998, 2002, 2006 and will be completed in 2018.

Treppo Carnico, Ovaro

In Friuli Venezia Giulia Region many projects received financing to renew public lighting throughout the region. We would like to illustrate the projects for Ovaro and Treppo Carnico – both carried out with ‘Light Nova’.

Carnia

Neri provided lighting for most towns in Carnia, fitting in with the various contexts with a variety of products, showing great respect for architecture and countryside.

Pagani Automobili

We are proud that Neri lamps have been chosen to illuminate the new Pagani factory, a successful combination between classic and contemporary in the name of a shared high-quality approach.

Water Canal, Dubai

A strategic part of the Water Canal project is the lighting, which has been entrusted to Neri. Neri worked side by side with Greek lighting design firm CPLD to make sure the result was exactly what designers and clients were after.

Fashion Island

To furnish and illuminate Fashion Island we chose ‘Light 600’ lanterns, the lamp posts of the Kuma system and the wall brackets of the Tabit system.

Francavilla Fontana

In a process to upgrade the luminaires installed in the past have now been replaced with Neri ‘Light 804’ LED luminaires.

Laguna Beach

Along the beautiful Laguna Beach promenade overlooking the beach, between the palm trees and agaves, the Layia series litter bins have been installed.

Ancona, Piazza Cavour

The renovation project of Piazza Cavour included saving the four surviving original benches, and reproducing 66 copies to furnish the large square, in addition to a lighting project with lamp posts in steel and cast iron.

Locorotondo

Neri is proud to have brought light to this enchanting place, and to have contributed to its magical atmosphere with ‘Light 804’.

Installations in the GCC

Neri installations in the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council)

Imola, Palazzo Comunale

Near Palazzo Comunale in Imola 15 wrought iron brackets have been decorating and providing light for the building with fake candles for over a century. Neri was asked to restore them.

Imola

Neri took care of historical lamp posts restoration, replicating the missing parts, equipping the lamp post with a steel core, and restoring the completely rusted surface to its original condition.

Trieste, piazza Unità d'Italia

Piazza Unità d’Italia has been reshaped many times over the centuries and the current appearance resulted from the restoration from 2001 to 2005. The original iron cast lamp posts were restored as well.

Rome, Piazza San Silvestro, Castel Sant'Angelo

In 2011 a decision was made to close to vehicle traffic San Silvestro square in Rome, turn it into a pedestrian area and requalify the area is a project by architect Paolo Portoghesi.

Marina di Ravenna Restoration

In the early 2000s, the Fondazione Neri – Italian Museum of Cast Iron, in Ravenna, identified two extraordinary original lamp posts located and subsequently launched the alarm to have them preserved.

Florence Restoration

During the past few years, Neri has often worked closely with Silfi, Florence’s electric company. Solutions were researched that could safeguard aesthetics and tradition, while also improving energy savings, visual comfort and general efficiency of the lanterns installed.

Dublin Restoration

Many urban reclamation operations in Dublin have been carried out, and specifically in the lighting sector. Neri has been involved constantly since 1999.

Matera

For many years, Neri has been working with Matera to provide suitable lighting and enhance its beauty. Different types lighting systems have been chosen for different areas of the city to enhance the lines and atmospheres with appropriate lighting.

Rome, Serra Moresca, Villa Torlonia

At the end of the 1970s, the Municipality of Rome purchased Villa Torlonia and started restoring the architectural emergencies inside the park.

Punta della Dogana, Venice

Positioned right on the tip of Punta della Dogana for more than 150 years, there is a great post made by Hasselquis of Venice between 1851 and 1859. The post was restored at Neri’s laboratory.

Piazza Bra, Verona

Franco Zeffirelli directed productions at the Arena, and his presence helped produce a proposal for a redesign of the verandas of the different businesses. This is how Neri came to work closely with Mr. Zeffirelli.

The Pearl, Doha

The Pearl in Doha,Qatar, is an artificial island with an area of four million square meters. It is the first land in Qatar that foreigners have the right to buy and own.

Fenice Siracusa

The city was entirely lit with LED lighting by Citelum, who replaced thousands of lighting elements with similar products equipped with LED sources.

Meraas Outlet, Dubai

Meraas Outlet will open in October 2016 about 40km out of Dubai. The lighting designers of this project ordered bespoke luminaires that Neri made.

Light Nova, Brescia

After having successfully completed the project in Milan with ‘Light Nova’, the utility company A2A extended the project to Brescia in order to renew all of its street light.

Spello and Assisi

Spello ans Assisi are perfectly preserved Italian medieval towns. They are associated with Saint Francis, who lived in this area, which is still captivating and beautiful.

Nocera Umbra

Neri is proud to have contributed to restoring this magnificent place filled with history and culture by providing street furniture and lighting throughout the entire city, with different types of brackets, arms and luminaires that integrate with the different urban contexts.

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