Naples: LAPIS Museum Guided Visit in Italian – Naples, Italy

EXPERIENCE:

The Water Museum is the hub of the underground path of the Basilica of Pietrasanta.

This fantastic hydraulic engineering project brings the ancient Greco-Roman cisterns back into operation.

This complex, located in the historic center of Naples, was built by the architect Cosimo Fanzago in the mid-seventeenth century, on the remains of the Ancient Temple of the goddess Diana.

The Basilica of Pietrasanta, today LAPIS Museum, boasts a suggestive underground path, a “Submerged Decumanus”.

Today the cisterns find water and runoffs, and have been enhanced by a technical lighting system that emphasizes volumes and vaults thanks to lights and colors.

A significant step was taken by installing the first archaeological lift in the historic center, capable of connecting the environment of the crypt with the subsoil in just 20 seconds, descending to a depth of 35 meters and 2000 years back in time.

TOUR HIGHLIGHTS:

Admire Naples in the basement of the Basilica of Pietrasanta
Visit the Museo dell’Acqua di Napoli
Ride the ancient elevator down to 35 meters deep

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