Here we are at the third cistern, look carefully: above, perhaps, if we are lucky, we will see Tide the smiling arachnid descend. He will show us more secrets of this place.
Hello!You are so beautiful ! Would you like to swing on my swing? Maybe I should beef it up a bit! Now I’m going to come down and show you how Spider-Man was born. Oh, I was joking! When the aqueduct was built, many wells were also dug. Now, the problem was to always keep the wells and underground channels where the water passed clean so as not to pollute it. And so the work of “pozzari” was born! These workers were very agile, they climbed along the walls of the wells, performed real acrobatics in the tanks, and made sure that nothing fell into the water. They saved Monello Pipistrello who, as a child, fell into the well to catch a fly. The pozzari often went up the walls of the wells and even managed to enter houses. Do you remember? We said that the wells were located in the courtyards. So it wasn’t that difficult to get into the house. And no one recognized them because they came in at night, so it was dark and then they were wrapped in cloaks. It is said that when a house or the family that lived in it made a good impression on the pozzari, they left gifts; otherwise they would constantly mischief. They hid their shoes or hats, ate the bread and changed the place of objects. People were also a little scared and believed that there was some strange being in their homes. Thus was born the legend of Munaciello. A kind of invisible, magical being who could enter houses and bring good or bad luck. So we had to treat him well. Do you understand what a transformation is? From wells to wizards and all because they had studied us spiders who never fall with our 8 legs and our magic thread. These are the ancestors of spider man.