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Grotto of the Sibyl

Cumae (Settlement), Magna Graecia (Region), Italy


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Description of institution: In the seventeenth, identified as the tunnel through the acropolis at Cumae now known as the "Crypta Romana," mentioned in Virgil's Aeneid 6.45-99.
Geo-location approximate.
People associated with this location: Cumaean Sibyl (-) - Lived at or near