Vasche Limarie

The Vasche Limarie were the last section of the Roman aqueduct: the water came from the Pozzo di Vito, about 10 kilometres west, along a gently sloping underground channel.

This is where it was cleaned. A series of connected tanks built of carparo stone slowed the water down and let sand and silt settle to the bottom, before sending it on to the city's fountains and cisterns. It is the only castellum aquae of its kind in the whole Salento.

With the depopulation of the early Middle Ages the tanks were abandoned. In the 1990s the Superintendency restored them and opened them to the public again.