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So, Gianluca, where are we? This is the Bourbon Tunnel. Yeah. So, this is the escape tunnel Yeah. for the king to go from the palace Yeah. in the Piazza del Plebiscito Yeah. to the barracks. to the military barracks. Wow. [groaning] The king was very worried, Ferdinand II. So, he decided to dig a tunnel. But, this isn't a huge tunnel. You don't Because it was a king. It's so big because the Bourbon tunnels joined together all the tufo quarries under here that had helped to build in Naples. And its uses didn't end there. After World War II, it was even a dump for abandoned vehicles. As our scanning team begins the task of
making sense of this labyrinth, we're going to look at what went on down here during the Second World War. Come with me. I want to show you something from the World War II. A bomb shelter. Naples was the most bombed Italian city in World War II. It's estimated that Allied raids killed more than 20,000 people. Look there. We have found the beds, the original. And the toys for children. Aw. Look. Come with me. You can read alarm, 26th April, '43. And here Noi vivi.
We are still alive. Because it was better to stay than stay outside under the bombing. Nearly 200 km of tunnels were cleared and electricity cables laid to cater for the hundreds of thousands of Neapolitans forced to shelter from Allied bombing. But, life went on. When we dig here we found this Oh. green color, as you can see. As you sure you want to be doing that? Try, please. Don't be afraid. Is that hair lotion? Yeah, a very old That's like when you go to the old barber shop. Exactly. How 70 years old. 70 years.
It works. But, it hasn't changed. Yeah. Do you use it yourself occasionally when you're down here? No, that I prefer not. Okay. That is extraordinary. Yes, very nice. I love the fact that this tunnel was originally built to save one man, a king. It never did, but it actually it ended up saving thousands of people as a bomb shelter during the Second World War.
