Are there tunnels under Italy?

There are thousands of caves and tunnels in Italy, giving the traveler lots of options to go underground. Tuscany alone has 1,500 grottoes and 270 km of underground tunnels. Here are three of my favorite underground (one is semi-underground) spots, and only one requires a hard hat!



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Derinkuyu, Cappadocia, Turkey Cappadocia city, located in central Turkey, is home to no less than 36 underground cities, and at a depth of approx. 85 m, Derinkuyu is the deepest.

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Believe it or not, under the town of Orvieto is an elaborate maze of tunnels and caverns. Over 2,500 years ago, the Etruscan civilization dug deep into the earth to supply their town with water.

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In 1876, then minister of public works Giuseppe Zanardelli declared: “Above or below the waves, Sicily must be united to the Continent.” But the tunnel was deemed too expensive and complex, and instead efforts were put into starting a ferry service, which began in 1896.

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Norway, which is considered the world's leader in tunnelling, has a whopping 900 tunnels, including the world's longest road tunnel.

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The LVCC Loop – a tunnel that Elon Musk has built in Las Vegas. Unsurprisingly, some of Elon Musk's craziest ideas got started on Twitter: “The traffic is driving me crazy. I'm going to build a tunnel boring machine and start digging.” The Tesla CEO tweeted this out in December 2016.

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Today, trains continue to go through the railway tunnel several times an hour, making it difficult to see the original tunnel, but the Brunel Museum tells the story of the creation of the Thames Tunnel, on the site of the Engine House and the original tunnel shaft sunk into the ground.

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The Kingsway Exchange tunnels, an expanse of 8,000 sq m of passageways several hundred feet below High Holborn, were shrouded in mystery for most of the 20th century with details covered by the government's Official Secrets Act, because of their wartime role as a base for MI6 officials.

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3 cities have standard metro/ underground systems. They are London (Underground/Tube), Glasgow (now called the subway), Newcastle upon Tyne (Tyne & Wear Metro). The 4th city is Liverpool but its underground route in the city centre is connected to the regional Merseyrail network & served by its mainline trains.

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