Rome in the dark? Bike tours of buried quarry offer new view of city.
by Nick Squires
Jan 04, 2022
3 minutes
In a tract of countryside outside the ancient walls of Rome, amid verdant fields and hedgerows reminiscent of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Shire, a mossy sunken lane overhung with alder trees leads down to a metal gate.
Beyond it is one of Rome’s largest but least known wonders: a labyrinth of tunnels that were hacked out of solid rock by the Romans 2,000 years ago. And this subterranean realm can now be explored by bicycle.
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