It has quenched Naples and the main cities of Campania since ancient times. With its springs in the Terminio basin, Serino was and is the capital of water, a strategic resource of Irpinia.
The first to notice it were the Romans, who, to take advantage of that opportunity, designed and built the most grandiose of their proverbial hydraulic engineering works: the Augustan Aqueduct. Right at the dawn of the Empire, the upper springs of Serino, Acquaro and Pelosi were channeled into the new aqueduct by the will of Augustus, who needed to supply the military fleet in the port of Miseno. Before reaching the Phlegrean area, the aqueduct along its 145-kilometre route, through seven branches, supplied eight cities as well as several smaller towns, including Naples, Pozzuoli and Cuma. And, until 79 AD, Pompeii and Herculaneum. The point of arrival in Miseno was the immense basin dug into the tuffaceous rock of the Piscina Mirabilis.
