In the center of Naples is the entrance to the dungeons, which were allegedly dug in the 19th century. - Bourbon tunnel:
A map with the location of the entrances and a description of the place how to find it.
Official information about this dungeon:
At first glance, it is impossible to single out some kind of riddle of history from this text or not docking in it. Until you look at the photos of this tunnel or visit it in person. And in order for questions to appear, you need to be able to ask them. Ask yourself when you see something like that, which I will show below.
To have an idea of what this tunnel is like now, I suggest first watching a short video:
As you can see, some of the premises of the dungeons and the approaches to them were refined for tourists. Most likely, a multi-level parking was made from some of the large underground halls, and you can even enter the underground by car. They write that there are excursions every day for schoolchildren and that there are three routes through the dungeons:
In general, dungeons and dungeons. Well, King Ferdinand II knocked out in the 19th century. these underground passages in order to escape from revolutions - and so what? What are the riddles?
Let's start with the fact that the entrances to the dungeons are not in the basements of the palace or palace buildings, but somewhere on the periphery. This is somehow strange: VIPs would have to leave the palace on the street and go into the entrances leading to the dungeons. If the tunnels were cut down, it would be right in the basement under the king's bedroom. Maybe there are some. Perhaps we simply do not know about them.
The huge inner halls with high vaults look very suspicious. If the task was to dig a tunnel to move people from point A to point B (for example, to the pier), then why do unnecessary work and dig so much soil. And he's not just clay here. The ground is almost petrified.
Another oddity: do you see brickwork on the sides, arches, some kind of vaults? It seems that here at the depths there are some remnants of very ancient buildings. We look further and confirm this:
Why this half-block arch and such a tall hall? The arch looks like some kind of ruins. Made of material - clearly a different breed from the vaults themselves. It turns out that these blocks had to be brought from somewhere? What is the point if the blocks could be cut from the removed rock of these very dungeons! To accommodate something voluminous, food supplies, weapons - such high halls are not needed. For what they were made - there must be a sense. Looking for something? The fourth slide - different types of arches do not create a straight passage. Most likely they continue within the breed.
Why were ladders made from blocks when they could be cut into the rock right away when the tunnel was laid?
But there are tunnels here. Most likely, they were dug at some time. Look: the steps are not made of blocks, but of the rock itself. And in the process they stumbled upon and decided to expand the vaults, to determine what kind of underground structures they were and what they had.
Not everything here is available to the average tourist. This video is from the third route. Unfortunately, I did not find maps of the dungeons to estimate the scale of these underground excavations.
You can read about the fact that the Bourbon tunnel goes 40 m deep here.
Transfer:
I get the impression that they dug tunnels and came across the remains of ancient ancient buildings. We decided to excavate, tk. it is possible that some artifacts were found. Well, for tourists and ordinary people they made up a story that all these are just tunnels. Or, perhaps, they even purposefully searched for antiquities, knowing that there is an older city near Naples.
While digging, the builders stumbled upon groundwater - they made such a pool.
This place is not clear at all. Maybe - also a pool with water, but dry. Or maybe the remains of ancient buildings.
What is the point of cutting through all these niches, slopes, mines and covering them with masonry? The breed is strong - it will not sprinkle and will withstand without masonry. There is only one conclusion: this masonry is like the ruins of ancient structures. There were excavations here at depth. The builders tried to cover as much as possible and understand what they came across.
In the background, it can be seen that the builders have unearthed a tower of an ancient structure. There is no sense in making this laying in a dungeon several floors.
It turns out that the Bourbon Tunnel is not the only dungeon in Naples. Ancient ruins can be viewed under the San Lorenzo Maggiore monastery. They are at a depth of 10 m:
Brickwork is encountered here. The first slide shows clearly underground structures that were once on the surface.
Why are they not digging anything now? I think that certain circles of archaeologists already understand everything. And the rock has already petrified - turned into a rock. Yes, this clay has turned to stone. It doesn't take millions of years.
All this prompts the question: what happened that ancient Naples was at such a depth? And everything is the same as with Rome. The cataclysm that destroyed the Etruscan civilization. Either a flood from the outflow of water and clay from the bowels, or the fallout of this clay with showers (there is a hypothesis that clay is the ash of volcanoes). It is possible that it was more than once. And the Roman Empire, built on the ruins of the Etruscans, met the same fate! Only when will they stop hushing it up and begin to revise history?
Author: sibved