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Extract from the Fermo and Porto San Giorgio Travel Guides:
Southeast of Macerata, a short distance from the coast, is the attractive old town of
FERMO
. Its web of streets is lined with medieval and Renaissance buildings, erupting out of which is a wooded peak crowned with a Romanesque-Gothic duomo. The town's most spectacular monument, however, is hidden from view - a first-century underground complex of thirty filter beds known as the
Piscina Epuratoria Romana
, originally designed to supply the Roman Imperial fleet with fresh water when it docked at the nearby port. Entered from Via Aceti, off the main Piazza del Popolo, it's something akin to a flooded cathedral, with its...
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