A hand-built network of underground rooms, courtyards and passageways reminiscent of the ancient catacombs
Unique fruit producing trees, shrubs, and vines growing underground -- some over 90 years-old
Ancient Roman architecture - arches, vaults and stone-built walls
Underground micro-climates -- temperature variations of 10 to 30 degrees
Underground home of Sicilian visionary and self-taught artist/builder Baldassare Forestiere
This site was "abandoned" and closed to the public when I was growing up. We used to sneak out there and explore it when we were in high school. We never engaged in vandalism -- just curiosity. We never got caught.
Neat! Where is it?
I should mention that my home town is Fresno, CA.
Marc Forestiere was in elementary school with me and his Mom was the den mother in Cub Scouts and she took us all there on a tour showing everything around 1970. Neat place.
They have underground gardens around Gilroy.
Born and baked in The ‘Burg, too. I remember that place! (I was 16 at the end of 1975, though. ;) ) I never got to sneak in there. That is probably a good thing, I get very claustrophobic when in underground places.
How were those plants watered? How would they get sun?