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Wide of Narni hill town2. Wide of rooftop with tourists below and guide 3. Tilt down from arch to narrow street in Narni4. Medium of palace fa�ade with relief carving and balcony5....\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eNarni, Italy - January 7th, 2011\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of Narni hill town\u003cbr/\u003e2. Wide of rooftop with tourists below and guide \u003cbr/\u003e3. Tilt down from arch to narrow street in Narni\u003cbr/\u003e4. Medium of palace fa�ade with relief carving and balcony\u003cbr/\u003e5. Tilt down of palace to Eleonora Aiello walking past\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE: (Italian) Eleonora Aiello, Narni Underground volunteer tour guide \u003cbr/\u003e\"Lewis knew Narni for sure. Narnia is the ancient name for Narni, its Roman name, and Lewis was a scholar of classical history.  Among the documents found in his archive, there is a map of Italy with a red circle around Narni. So it's likely that he either knew it through ancient documents or that he's even been here.\" \u003cbr/\u003e7. Close of carved lion monster gargoyle\u003cbr/\u003e8. Close of carved lion\u003cbr/\u003e9. Mid walking shot down corridor leading to Inquisition torture room \u003cbr/\u003e10. Mid of chair and candles inside Inquisition torture room\u003cbr/\u003e11. Close of framed photograph showing group of caving friends including archaeologist Roberto Nini\u003cbr/\u003e12. Close of framed photograph showing Roberto Nini as a young man\u003cbr/\u003e13. Close of framed photograph of Mr. Ernani, the old man Roberto Nini and his friends met before finding the underground vault \u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE: (Italian) Roberto Nini, archaeologist\u003cbr/\u003e\"Everything starts in 1979.  I was on a caving expedition with five friends.  We decided to try a new rope and come down this wall here.  We tied the rope to the railing and arrived in this small piece of land and met Ernani, an old man who greeted us with a stick because we had damaged his salad, his very precious salad.  Eventually we became friendly and he said to us  'Look, I've found a hole underneath these ruins (there was once a Dominican friars convent here)'. We followed his tip, entered through the hole and found the underground vault.\"\u003cbr/\u003e15. Tilt down from ceiling to furniture inside torture room (furniture not original) \u003cbr/\u003e16. Mid of torture table\u003cbr/\u003e17. Close of torture table \u003cbr/\u003e18. Wide of archaeologist Roberto Nini talking to tourists \u003cbr/\u003e19. Wide of entrance to Narni underground city\u003cbr/\u003e20. Mid of poster reading 'Narni Sotterranea' ('Narni Underground') \u003cbr/\u003e21. Close of poster \u003cbr/\u003e22. Tilt down to tourists waiting in courtyard at ticket office \u003cbr/\u003e23. Mid of tourists \u003cbr/\u003e24. Pan left of tourists entering ticket office  \u003cbr/\u003e25. Mid of room with replica of Inquisition garment and other objects on display \u003cbr/\u003e26. Wide of tourists and guide before entering underground vault \u003cbr/\u003e27. Mid of tourists and guide \u003cbr/\u003e28. Close of entrance to vault of Santa Maria della Rupe with tourists entering\u003cbr/\u003e29. Wide of underground church with scaffolding in front of frescoes \u003cbr/\u003e30. Close of fresco detail of angel \u003cbr/\u003e31. Pan left from human bones to deep hole inside vault \u003cbr/\u003e32. Close of well dating from Roman times\u003cbr/\u003e33. SOUNDBITE: (Italian) Roberto Nini, archaeologist \u003cbr/\u003e\"We have been able to piece together the story of two main prisoners: a bigamist who was imprisoned here in 1726 and whose court papers we found at Dublin's Trinity College.  He managed to escape after strangling his guard with ropes, but after four months he was caught and sentenced to be put in chains, rowing a galley ship. This prisoner was illiterate. But in the Inquisition cell that we found 30 years ago we discovered some graffiti sketched by a special prisoner, someone who was able to write very well, who uses a very strange language, deciphered only recently: Giuseppe Andrea Lombardini, who was imprisoned down here on 4 December 1759.\"   \u003cbr/\u003e34. Close of bars on Inquisition prison cell \u003cbr/\u003e35. Pan left of walls of prison cell covered with graffiti\u003cbr/\u003e36. Close of graffiti \u003cbr/\u003e37. Pan left of graffiti on walls of prison cell  \u003cbr/\u003e38. Close of graffiti \u003cbr/\u003e39. Close of grating from inside of prison cell looking out\u003cbr/\u003e40. Wide of River Nera looking down from above\u003cbr/\u003e41. Wide of Narni hill town\u003cbr/\u003eThe town that inspired the Chronicles of Narnia children's classics holds a dark and disturbing secret.\u003cbr/\u003eDeep below the town are secret passageways and caverns once used as prison cells and torture chambers.\u003cbr/\u003eThis is Narni. A picturesque Italian hill town around 95 miles north of Rome in the Umbrian countryside.\u003cbr/\u003eTourists are drawn to its medieval churches, streets and alleyways, all of them steeped in history.\u003cbr/\u003eThere has been human settlement here for at least two and a half thousand years.  It is a small town with a big story.\u003cbr/\u003eNarni may have been the inspiration for the English writer C.S. Lewis, author of the hugely successful Chronicles of Narnia series of children's books.\u003cbr/\u003eVolunteer tour guide Eleonora Aiello is convinced of the connection: \"Lewis knew Narni for sure.  Narnia is the ancient Roman name for Narni, and Lewis was a scholar of classical history.  Among the documents found in his archive, there is a map of Italy with a red circle around Narni.  So it's likely that he either knew it through ancient documents or even that he has been here.\" \u003cbr/\u003eFor Lewis, Narnia was a magical kingdom of talking beasts where good triumphed over evil.  \u003cbr/\u003eBut the pretty face of the real Narni hides a dark and disturbing underbelly.\u003cbr/\u003eBelow the city streets, in caves carved out of the cliff it stands on, terrible secrets have been found.\u003cbr/\u003eUnderground vaults and gloomy passageways snake through the solid rock.\u003cbr/\u003eFor more than 200 years until the middle of the 19th century, this was where enemies of the Catholic Church were imprisoned, tried - and tortured.\u003cbr/\u003eThis is the best preserved example of the Catholic Church's network of secret Inquisition courts.\u003cbr/\u003eVictims of interrogation by Inquisition agents hunting suspected sinners or unbelievers, met a cruel fate here.\u003cbr/\u003eThe vaults were discovered 32 years ago by five young Italians out on a caving expedition.\u003cbr/\u003eWhen he was still a student Roberto Nini and friends were guided by an old local man to the gruesome discovery beneath the ruins of a Dominican monastery:  \"He said to us: 'Look, I've found a hole underneath these ruins'.  We followed his tip, entered through the hole and found the underground vault,\" he recalls.\u003cbr/\u003eNini has made it his lifetime's work to shine a light on the mysteries of Narni, going on to train as an archaeologist so that he could delve deeper into Narni's past.\u003cbr/\u003eNow the underground system is a tourist attraction with the torture chamber one of the macabre highlights of a trip into the bowels of the earth.\u003cbr/\u003eWhile priests were holding mass for the faithful above in San Domenico's church Inquisition guards were torturing prisoners in a small cell just a few feet below.   \u003cbr/\u003eThe Inquisition was established throughout Europe by the Roman Catholic Church to prosecute and punishing anyone considered to be a heretic.\u003cbr/\u003eThe reign of terror lasted from the Middle Ages until the 19th century.   \u003cbr/\u003eBesides the torture chamber, visitors get to see some of the remains of a 13th century church with frescoes preserved in good condition.\u003cbr/\u003eIn an adjacent room, there is a Roman-era cistern and some human bones.   \u003cbr/\u003eAlong with a group of about 30 volunteers, Nini has tried to piece together the story of those imprisoned here using documents in the Vatican Archives and at Dublin's Trinity College.   \u003cbr/\u003e\"We have been able to piece together the story of two main prisoners: a bigamist who was imprisoned here in 1726 and whose court papers we found at Dublin's Trinity College.  He managed to escape after strangling his guard with ropes, but after four months he was caught and sentenced to be put in chains, rowing a galley ship. This prisoner was illiterate. But in the Inquisition cell that we found 30 years ago we discovered some graffiti sketched by a special prisoner, someone who was able to write very well, who uses a very strange language, deciphered only recently: Giuseppe Andrea Lombardini, who was imprisoned down here on 4 December 1759.\"   \u003cbr/\u003eThe graffiti etched into the walls of the prison cell testify to the pain and confusion of the detainees.\u003cbr/\u003eThere are prayers and holy signs and cryptic messages.  Much of it is coded, with masonic symbols of the sun and moon and stars, and scribbles related to Jesuit and kabbalist faith.\u003cbr/\u003eThe author was Giuseppe Andrea Lombardini.  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