PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to Inhabited Beauty@lemmy.worldEnglish · 29 days agoAerial view of Centuripe, Italylemmy.worldimagemessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up1364arrow-down14cross-posted to: lemmydirectory@lemmy.dbzer0.com
arrow-up1360arrow-down1imageAerial view of Centuripe, Italylemmy.worldPugJesus@lemmy.worldM to Inhabited Beauty@lemmy.worldEnglish · 29 days agomessage-square38fedilinkcross-posted to: lemmydirectory@lemmy.dbzer0.com
minus-squareBob@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-228 days agoYou can see on the map they’ve got public taps: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/37.620996/14.742858 One of the archaeological sites is labelled “Roman Cistern” too and you can see a lot of streams.
minus-squareGeobloke@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·28 days agoNot that I don’t you, as it makes sense, but I can’t see any cisterns on satellite view. It does say the town was completely razed in 1233, so it might have existed. My next question would be how they collected the water on top of a hill
You can see on the map they’ve got public taps: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/37.620996/14.742858
One of the archaeological sites is labelled “Roman Cistern” too and you can see a lot of streams.
Not that I don’t you, as it makes sense, but I can’t see any cisterns on satellite view. It does say the town was completely razed in 1233, so it might have existed. My next question would be how they collected the water on top of a hill