Palombaro Lungo - Cisterna Ipogea

Cultural siteMateraAbout 30 minutes

An enormous cistern hollowed out beneath the main square, fifteen metres deep and unknown to most of the town until the 1990s. Visited on a short guided walk down into it. Twenty minutes, directly under the café you were sitting at.

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