Pozzo Traiano (Trajan's Well)
- Type
- Monuments
- Area
- City centre
- Time
- about 10 min
- When
- any time, evenings included
You won't see Trajan's Well: it lies a couple of metres below the paving, in the middle of the little square, where today there is just a manhole cover.
More than a well, it was a large store of drinking water, fed by a spring-fed water table and partly by the aqueduct. It is named after the emperor Trajan, under whom it was built.
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