Galleries dug into the peperino rock.

Mainly used as a deposit for wine barrels, ensuring optimal conservation, and, in the war period, as a shelter and protection from aerial bombardment, the underground caves of Marino have recently been the object of care and interest by the institutions. In some of them an expository and didactic itinerary was created, with the reasoned arrangement of the finds discovered during the restoration and cleaning of the galleries. The Roman cistern, later transformed into a Christian oratory, was found instead under the deconsecrated church of Santa Lucia (now the Civic Museum), demonstrating how the Marinese subsoil has always lent itself to the conservation of basic necessities, such as the water in this case, and how, over the centuries, it has been adapted several times to the needs, habits and customs of the community.

Photo by Filippo Di Rosa