LAPIS Museum - Museo dell'Acqua Napoli

This guide to the LAPIS Museum in Naples starts forty meters underground, where a looping air-raid siren recalls the night in the 1940s when families sheltered here from Allied bombs. It traces the space back further, to the Greek quarry cut for the young city of Neapolis and the Roman engineers who turned its tunnels into cisterns for the aqueduct. You'll hear how a church later rose above it all, and how the same instinct to go underground repeated itself two thousand years apart. Listen as you walk the kilometer of passage toward the largest underground hall in the city.