There are two ways of discovering the secrets of Piazza del Plebiscito, the wide space enclosed by Palazzo Reale (the royal palace) and by the colonnade of the basilica of San Francesco di Paola: blind-folded, and underground.
From the door of the royal palace it’ll be difficult, if not almost impossible, to walk blind-folded towards the center of the statues of Ferdinand I and Charles III. There is a simple reason for this: the piazza is slightly inclined and will veer you away from the target.
Underground, below the square, you may visit onboard a raft the Bourbon Tunnel, once an underground passage used by King Ferdinand II in 1853 as a military escape route from Piazza del Plebiscito.
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