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UNDERGROUND CISTERN
The Mystic Underground mentioned in Dan Brown's novel " #inferno "
This is he biggest and most spectacular cistern in the city.The ceiling of the cistern, which looks like a forest of pillars,is covered with bricks and crosswise arches.It was named the Basilica Cistern because of a basilica which used to be in the vicinity.It was built during the reign of Justinanus the 1th to provide water to the palaces in the vicinity.The pillars are decorated with some plain and Corinthian style pillar heads.There are 336 pillars.The floor was cleaned during the big restoration 1984,unearthing from one meter of mud the original floor of bricks and marble blocks with the figure of medusa's head. in ISTANBUL
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