Criptoportico e ambienti sotterranei del Palazzo Imperiale

Portus

From this position, one can see the service corridor located behind the façade of the Imperial Palace. Extending to the east of this corridor, on ground-floor level, is an intricate series of service rooms that presumably replicated the first-storey arrangement; the circular base of a bread oven, probably from the modern era, survives in one of these rooms. In the building’s ground floor there is also a large, vaulted cistern, with two pillars inside. At the eastern end of the complex, the rooms surround a peristyle, providing light through first-storey hopper windows.

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Historical photo of the cryptoporticus

One of the cryptoporticus’s service environments  

Underground corridor of the Imperial Palace
(Portus Project)

A bread oven’s circular base
(Portus Project)

The service corridor behind the Terrace of Trajan 
(photo: Portus Project)

Underground environment delimited by large relieving arches 
(photo: Portus Project)

Detail of one end of the Cryptoporticus 
(photo: P. Verduchi)

Underground environments of the Imperial Palace 

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