The Cloaca Maxima Outfall (Rome) | monument, interesting place, sewage outfall

Italy / Lazio / Rome
 monument, interesting place, sewage outfall
The Cloaca Maxima was one of the world's earliest sewage systems. Constructed in ancient Rome in order to drain local marshes and remove the waste of one of the world's most populous cities, it carried effluent to the River Tiber, which ran beside the city.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaca_Maxima
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Coordinates:   41°53'19"N   12°28'48"E

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  • Obviously this is just the end of the cloaca, where it dumps into the Tiber. The cloaca maxima runs all the way from just beyond the forum, down here to the river. Several sections can still be accessed, and tours are offered. There are many cloaca beneath the city, none of which are as large as the cloaca maxima. If you visit the subterranean (ancient Roman) remains beneath the church of San Clemente, you can hear water still flowing through the system. Pretty amazing.
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