Tunnels of Claudius
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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May 14, 2026 06:03 PM
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History
An approximately 6 km. long tunnel built under Roman emperor Claudius in 52 CE for the purposes of attempting to drain the Lacus Fucinus.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/860463950
41.9885249, 13.4333512
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Cunicoli di Claudio (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Cunicoli di Claudio (Italian, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- Tunnels of Claudius flows into Liris/Clanis (river) (unspecified date range)
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Jeffrey Becker, 'Tunnels of Claudius: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/860463950> [accessed: 12 June 2026]
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