Let's talk a little about this strange world: we are 30 m deep. What happened down here, in a distant time? Here we used to dug every day because we needed to build a city, which one? But Naples, or rather Neapolis which actually means "New City". These are tuff quarries, a material that the Greek colonists, coming from Cuma, used to build houses, temples and theaters. We are in the fourth century, BC. and the Greeks, great navigators, had discovered the coasts of southern Italy. They stopped here in Campania because the gulf would welcome and protect their ships, because the land was fertile and because the landscape was wonderful. The bricklayers descended into the quarries and also had to erect cisterns to collect the water which probably came from the Sebeto river which now no longer exists. Neapolis was built as the most important Greek city, Athens, following the instructions of Greek architects. There were longitudinal streets and other transversal ones that intersected. Public wells were built in the crossroads which allowed the inhabitants to get water.
04/07/2024