One hundred as well as l meters from the large public foursquare of Piazza del Plebiscito inward primal Naples , Italy , is an entrance that descends nearly 30 meters nether the dry reason to the brusk Bourbon Tunnel , consisting of approximately 530 meters of giant passageways , huge caves as well as narrow culverts. Built inward the pump of the 19th century , the tunnel was largely forgotten subsequently the destination of the Second Word War , until its rediscovery inward the early on 2000s.
The tunnel was conceived equally an escape road from the Royal Palace , past times the as well as thence King of the Two Sicilies , Ferdinand II of Bourbon , who was extremely paranoid nearly beingness overthrown past times the riot-happy public of Sicily as well as Naples , during the tumultuous Napoleonic period. Since 1816 , in that place had been iii revolutions against the Bourbon dominion , as well as a really trigger-happy i inward 1848 , where the revolutionists seized the kingdom for sixteen months. After coming dorsum to ability inward 1849 , Ferdinand II hastily rewrote a novel constitution as well as began making plans for a security escape should the people ascent inward revolt again.
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