The Roman Cisterns are a monument of hydraulic engineering situated beneath present-day piazza Matteotti – which traces the imprint of the Roman forum– at the northern end of Amelia (TR). They were built between the 2nd and 1st century B.C. when Amelia was elevated to the rank of municipality and provided with a range of functional infrastructures (walls, terracing, roads).
A large rectangular area (57.5 x 19.6 m) divided into ten parallel barrel-vaulted rooms (average height: 5.70 m) dug out of the limescale rock and later faced with stone cladding, the cement nucleus is covered with irregularly-shaped rough stones set into mortar. Perfectly conserved, the cisterns retain all the components essential to the functioning of the entire complex, including the systems for water intake, regulation of the maximum water level and drainage.
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