2nd cistern

Let's go a little further and here we are at the second cistern. Do you believe in magic? So cover your eyes and start the time machine to go far into the fourth century. Then imagine yourself invisible. Now, with your eyes open, go and choose a place here next to me. If you look carefully, you will see a group of workers down there: their faces and bodies are dusty and they seem a little tired, they have brought a lot of stuff to the surface. But their work is not finished. In fact, they will have to start digging the canals in which the water will flow. Because this city, Neapolis, has grown, there are many people who live here and they need water; therefore, the Greeks gradually began to create canalizations for the water to make it flow into the wells. My ancestors also helped dig and were very good, very quick at their work. When the ancient Romans,who were formidable engineers, arrived, they decided to transform the tuff quarries into an immense aqueduct and therefore built other cisterns, making them waterproof, and created many channels, a real aqueduct, very very powerful, with many wells to bring the water to the surface. Just think that they began to build a network of canals that reached very far because this water had to flow up to Miseno, in the villas of the noble and rich Romans that had been built in those areas, very far from Naples . And they succeeded precisely because they were skilled engineers.