The Cisterns

What not everyone knows is that Sanremo, like other large cities, has its own little invisible city, underground.
These are: underground alleys; buildings incorporated under the paving of new squares; cisterns; wells in the cellars of the palaces.
In the upper part of the city (la Pigna), water from underground aquifers or rainwater (rain, etc.) was stored in tanks scattered here and there, hence the various place names such as Via Cisterna, Vicolo Cisternin or "funtanassa" to which a collection tank was attached.
In the flat part of the town, the system of wells (which fetched water from the few aquifers in the subsoil or from meteoric sources) and cisterns, in which water supplies were kept in view of drought periods, was the only existing system, the only one that allowed water supply.
There are an unknown number of cisterns scattered around La Pigna, even family cisterns, i.e. some people had them in their own homes, and during recent excavations for the hydraulic renovation of the old town, some of these were found.
This part of the city, almost invisible and for many unknown, belongs to the cultural heritage of the community and is in danger of being forgotten, with the passage of time, without adequate documentation and valorisation.
Here we will examine some of the more or less famous or ignored ones.