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Beneath Split: Sewers, Secret Tunnels, and an Emperor’s Last Fortress

How a Roman retirement palace turned its basement sewer into a wedding hall — and never stopped working as a city inside a city.

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Joseph Pickett
Apr 28, 2026
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Diocletian’s ‘retirement villa’: a Roman fortress that never retired, now full of cafés and shortcuts instead of soldiers

You don’t enter Diocletian’s Palace the way you enter a ruin, because it never…

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