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Bacoli, in brief.

Piscina Mirabilis, Roman cistern.

A town on the Campi Flegrei coast west of Naples, riddled with Roman engineering.

Beneath it lies the Piscina Mirabilis, a vast cathedral-like cistern of forty-eight pillars that once stored water for the imperial fleet at Misenum.

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