Generally a place to store water. Like those big blue tanks you have on top of your house. Or those silver tanks you have at your backyard.
Now here's one Cistern that saved a lot of people for centuries.
The Basilica Cistern. And it's the size of a cathedral.
It looks nothing like the one at your house and it lies beneath the city of Istanbul. Now it makes me think of the purpose of the SMART Tunnel.
Ever there since 476, it provided a water filtration system for the Great Palace of Constantinople and continued to provide water to the Topkapi Palace and into modern times.
Such a pretty place with a humble purpose.
There's even two heads of Medusa here.
Mysterious as it is, they still could not figure out why her heads are laid upside down and another one sideways.
As for me, the one Medusa I know is from the Powerpuff girls. Oh well well, I've checked and her name is Sedusa. Not Medusa.
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