{"id":8433,"date":"2020-10-23T11:04:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T11:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/destinationnaples.org\/napoli-sotteranea\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T06:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T06:08:17","slug":"napoli-sotteranea","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/destinationnaples.org\/fr\/napoli-sotteranea\/","title":{"rendered":"NAPOLI SOTTERRANEA"},"content":{"rendered":"

For over 30 years, Napoli Sotterranea<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span> has offered excursions to the most fascinating and evocative places in the belly of the city. The members of the Association are committed to the recovery and enhancement of the subsoil for public use.<\/span> Underground Naples has represented a fundamental starting point for other realities born in Italy and Europe thanks to the competence and collaboration of the Association.<\/span><\/p>\n

Taking part in the excursion means making a journey through history 2400 years long, from the Greek era to the modern one, at a depth of 40 meters between tunnels and cisterns. During the excursion, in addition to admiring the remains of the ancient Greco-Roman aqueduct and the air-raid shelters of the Second World War, you will visit the War Museum, the Hypogeal Gardens (www.ortipogei.it<\/strong><\/span>), the Seismic Station \u00ab\u00a0Arianna\u00a0\u00bb and much more.<\/span> Finally, it will be possible to visit the remains of the ancient Greek-Roman theater for free, accessible from <\/span>a <\/span>private property.<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/u>The history of the Neapolitan subsoil:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The first artifacts of underground excavations date back to around 5,000 years ago, almost at the end of the prehistoric era. Subsequently, in the III century BC, the Greeks opened the first underground quarries to obtain the blocks of tuff needed to build the walls and temples of their Neapolis and dug in numerous environments to create a series of funeral hypogea. The imposing development of the underground network began in Roman times: the Romans in fact in the Augustan period endowed the city with road tunnels and above all a complex network of aqueducts, fed by underground conduits coming from the sources of the Serino, 70 km away from the center of Naples. Other branches of the aqueduct of the Augustan age reached as far as Miseno, to feed the Piscina Mirabilis, which was the water reserve of the Roman fleet. Wide that little that allowed the passage of a man, the aqueduct tunnels branched out in all directions, with the aim of feeding fountains and houses located in different areas of the upper city. At times, on the walls, there are still traces of the hydraulic plaster, used by ancient engineers to waterproof the tunnels. At the beginning of the 16th century, the old aqueduct and the many rainwater cisterns could no longer satisfy the need for water in the city, which had spread like wildfire and it was thus that the wealthy Neapolitan nobleman Cesare Carmignano built a new aqueduct. It was only at the beginning of the twentieth century that underground excavation for water supply stopped and a network of tunnels and cisterns of over 2,000,000 m\u00b2 spread throughout the city. The basements were then used during the Second World War as air raid shelters to protect themselves from the disastrous bombings that hit the city. The cavities were illuminated and arranged to accommodate dozens of people who hurried down the stairs that went down to the depths of the siren. Remnants of furnishings, graffiti and various objects in excellent condition still bear witness to the great fear of bombing and the numerous periods of the day lived in the refuges, bringing to light an important and at the same time tragic slice of life in the city’s history.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Depuis plus de 30 ans, Napoli Sotterranea<\/strong> propose des excursions dans les lieux les plus fascinants et \u00e9vocateurs du ventre de la ville. Les membres de l\u2019Association s\u2019engagent dans la r\u00e9cup\u00e9ration et la valorisation du sous-sol, afin de le rendre accessible au public.
\nNapoli Sotterranea a repr\u00e9sent\u00e9 un point de d\u00e9part fondamental pour d\u2019autres r\u00e9alit\u00e9s n\u00e9es en Italie et en Europe, gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 la comp\u00e9tence et \u00e0 la collaboration de l\u2019Association.
\nParticiper \u00e0 l\u2019excursion signifie accomplir un voyage dans l\u2019histoire long de 2 400 ans, de l\u2019\u00e9poque grecque \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9poque moderne, \u00e0 40 m\u00e8tres de profondeur, entre tunnels et citernes. Pendant l\u2019excursion, outre les vestiges de l\u2019ancien aqueduc gr\u00e9co-romain et des abris antia\u00e9riens de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, on visite le Mus\u00e9e de la Guerre, les Orti Ipogei (www.ortipogei.it), la Station sismique \u201cArianna\u201d et bien plus encore. Enfin, il est possible de visiter gratuitement les vestiges de l\u2019ancien th\u00e9\u00e2tre gr\u00e9co-romain, accessibles depuis une propri\u00e9t\u00e9 priv\u00e9e.<\/p>\n

L\u2019histoire du sous-sol napolitain<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Les premi\u00e8res traces de fouilles souterraines remontent \u00e0 environ 5 000 ans, presque \u00e0 la fin de l\u2019\u00e8re pr\u00e9historique.
\nPar la suite, au IIIe si\u00e8cle av. J.-C., les Grecs ouvrirent les premi\u00e8res carri\u00e8res souterraines afin d\u2019extraire les blocs de tuf n\u00e9cessaires \u00e0 la construction des murs et des temples de leur Neapolis, et creus\u00e8rent de nombreux espaces pour cr\u00e9er une s\u00e9rie d\u2019hypog\u00e9es fun\u00e9raires.
\nLe d\u00e9veloppement imposant du r\u00e9seau souterrain commen\u00e7a \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9poque romaine : \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9poque august\u00e9enne, les Romains dot\u00e8rent en effet la ville de galeries routi\u00e8res et surtout d\u2019un r\u00e9seau complexe d\u2019aqueducs, aliment\u00e9 par des conduits souterrains provenant des sources du Serino, \u00e0 70 km du centre de Naples.
\nD\u2019autres branches de l\u2019aqueduc august\u00e9en atteignaient Miseno, afin d\u2019alimenter la Piscina Mirabilis, qui servait de r\u00e9serve d\u2019eau \u00e0 la flotte romaine.
\nAssez \u00e9troits pour ne permettre que le passage d\u2019un homme, les tunnels de l\u2019aqueduc se ramifiaient dans toutes les directions, dans le but d\u2019alimenter fontaines et habitations situ\u00e9es dans diff\u00e9rentes zones de la ville haute.
\nPar endroits, on remarque encore sur les parois des traces d\u2019enduit hydraulique, utilis\u00e9 par les ing\u00e9nieurs de l\u2019Antiquit\u00e9 pour imperm\u00e9abiliser les galeries.
\nAu d\u00e9but du XVIe si\u00e8cle, l\u2019ancien aqueduc et les tr\u00e8s nombreuses citernes d\u2019eau de pluie ne parvenaient plus \u00e0 satisfaire les besoins en eau d\u2019une ville qui s\u2019\u00e9tait largement \u00e9tendue. C\u2019est ainsi que le riche noble napolitain Cesare Carmignano fit construire un nouvel aqueduc.
\nCe n\u2019est qu\u2019au d\u00e9but du XXe si\u00e8cle que l\u2019on cessa de creuser le sous-sol pour l\u2019approvisionnement en eau, abandonnant un r\u00e9seau de tunnels et de citernes de plus de 2 000 000 m\u00b2, diffus\u00e9 dans toute la ville.
\nLes souterrains furent ensuite utilis\u00e9s pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale comme abris antia\u00e9riens pour se prot\u00e9ger des bombardements d\u00e9sastreux qui frapp\u00e8rent la ville.
\nLes cavit\u00e9s furent \u00e9clair\u00e9es et am\u00e9nag\u00e9es pour accueillir des dizaines et des dizaines de personnes qui, au son de la sir\u00e8ne, se h\u00e2taient de descendre les escaliers menant en profondeur.
\nDes restes de mobilier, des graffiti et divers objets en excellent \u00e9tat de conservation t\u00e9moignent encore aujourd\u2019hui de la grande peur des bombardements et des nombreux moments de la journ\u00e9e pass\u00e9s dans les abris, faisant r\u00e9appara\u00eetre une tranche de vie importante et en m\u00eame temps tragique de l\u2019histoire de la ville.<\/p>\n

Website<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

www.napolisotterranea.org<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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