In zattera sotto Piazza del Plebiscito - Percorso avventura (Associazione Culturale Borbonica Sotterranea)
Twenty meters under Piazza del Plebiscito is the gallery of an underground line built in the late '80s and never completed it, on the occasion of the football World Cup of 1990, it was supposed to connect the western part of the city with the center and with the east. The tunnel, partially flooded from the groundwater, visit with a raft. The tour allows you to fully understand some interesting peculiarities of Naples. To reach the starting dock raft navigating a gallery of a few tens of meters, carved from a large tank. After the crossing, which lasts a few minutes, then continue on foot until the end of the tunnel, where you can still see the remnants of subway construction site. "Adventure path" helps to have a better idea of the so-called "underground city "; Naples rests, in fact, on a huge maze of tunnels, aqueducts and cisterns made by Greeks and Romans, of which the first traces of excavation date back to about 5000 years ago. It was with the tuff proceeds from underground which was built overlooking the city. In 1885, after the last tragic outbreak of cholera, the network of underground tanks was abandoned and replaced by modern aqueducts. During teh Second World War some of them were used as air raid shelters.
Info:
Guided tours: Saturday and Sunday 10:00/12:00 am; 3:30/5:30 pm (Duration 1 hour and 20 minutes)
Pedestrian entrance by Morelli parking.
Funicular: Augusteo, Parco Margherita; Metro: Line 1 Municipio, line 2 Amedeo.
