At the bottom of the well lay a maze of waterways spreading out like the roots of a tree, watering the roots of the city. At the bottom of the well lay something even more wonderful.
The Undercity!
Naples is an ancient city. The centuries have piled it up like the chapters in a book, one city on top of the one before. Underneath Naples-in-the-Sunshine lies Naples-in-the-Dark.
Here, once, Romans in togas and sandals cooked and worked, ate and slept, painted their walls with pictures, paves their floors with coloured stones, while the river flowed outside their windows and fruit trees grew in their sunny courtyards. Now the windows had no view but darkness; the courtyard had no sky but the floors and streets above them.
Monacello, The Little Monk, P32
written by Geraldine McCaughrean
illustrated by Jana Diemberger
ISBN 978-1-907912-03-0
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