121 Steps below Napoli, there is an even bigger city...
Made up of cisterns, aqua ducts, quarries and tunnels from 4th century BC.
Once the water was contaminated in the late 1800's it was abandoned until the second world war when the population lived down there in hiding from the bombings.
Until then it was only accessible via the well shafts, and people who were small in size would climb down using holes in the side of the well.
At one point we had to walk sideways down a tunnel as it was maximum 50cm's wide, if it wasn't so fascinating it would have been terrifying.
Incredibly astounding.
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