A week or so ago, we presented two reports on the cave-in of a sidewalk on via Cimarosa in the Vomero section of Naples, Italy, and expressed hope that we would be able to do a survey of the cavity beneath the cave in. Such a cavity had been reported over the years to have been a WW II air raid shelter, but was never verified. Well, we have been able to get the first photographs of this partially completed air raid shelter.
The upper part of the long stairway down into the quarried caverns below, has two distinct partial cave-ins, while the lower section is in good condition. The cavity, carved out from the tufo sandstone, shows the floor to be covered by
sizeable amounts of rubble and debris, while the tufo of the walls appears to be solid and intact with the exception of some seepage from sewerage.
The sidewalk cave-in seen from inside the cavity
Partial cave-in of the access stairway
Lower part of the stairway
Debris accumulated on the floor of the cavity
Infiltration and seepage from the ceiling
The upper chamber
The ceiling of the upper chamber
A corridor in the air raid shelter . . . note insulators on the ceiling for electrical wiring
If you are enrolled, you can see all the photographies to this link C0751
The first NEWS on, January 06, 2006
The second NEWS on, January 07, 2006
Translation - Larry Ray
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