Special A.A.A. Off-site Event
In conjunction with
BOURBON TUNNEL AND SERRA DI CASSANO PALACE
On a first come first served basis (max 110 persons per session)
The AAA Off-site Event will offer an unique underground spaces experience. The event is organized in conjunction with ITACUS and includes presentations
from world renowned architects and paper presentations on the theme of archaeology, architecture and art in underground construction.
Check and download the Special AAA Off-site events program clicking here.
After the presentations a tour of the the Bourbon
Tunnel will be provided. Guests will jump into the past, through the steep stairs caved in the tuff rock that link the basement of the Serra di Cassano
Palace to the Bourbon Tunnel, accompanied by the narration of local guides (return transfer service available).
For transfer information please click here
Registration Fee: € 30,00 (VAT included)
- May 6, 2019
afternoon hrs. 14.00-17.30 - May 7, 2019
afternoon hrs. 14.00-17.30 - May 8, 2019
morning hrs. 09.00-12.30
afternoon hrs. 14.00-17.30
Special A.A.A. Off-site Event
The Bourbon Tunnel and the Mirrors Hall
The Bourbon Tunnel (“Galleria Borbonica”) is one of the most fascinating underground route of the city. It is an ancient underground passage, commissioned by the Bourbon monarchs mainly for military purposes, to connect the Royal Palace of Naples to military barracks in Via Morelli.
On the 19 February 1853 Ferdinand II of Bourbon signed a decree with which he commissioned the arch. Errico Alvino - an extraordinary commissar for
Via Chiaia and S. Ferdinando - to design an underground viaduct that, passing under Monte Echia, joined the Royal Palace with Piazza Vittoria,
near the sea and the barracks.
This decree had no social purposes; Alvino considered the realization of a military passage, in defense of the Royal Palace, for the troops stationed in the
barracks of via Pace (now via Domenico Morelli), as well as a safe escape route for the same monarchs, after the risks of 1848s riots.
This session will include a guided tour to the Bourbon Tunnel and the AAA presentation in the splendid Serra di Cassano palace). Guests will jump into the past,
through the steep stairs caved in the tuff rock that link the basement of the Serra di Cassano Palace to the Bourbon Tunnel, accompanied by the narration of
local guides (return transfer service available).