Reading Underground Naples: Hidden Rooms and Boreholes

Vocabulary

• Cunicoli: narrow passages.
• Pozzi: shafts/boreholes.
• Cisterne: cisterns for water storage.

Anatomy

• Shafts deliver air/light and access for maintenance.
• Bridges span cisterns to reach all surfaces.

Try this: Look for tool marks around pozzi — signs of repeated work.

Visitor Map (Mental Model)

Bottom Line

Once you learn the vocab, the underground becomes legible.