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{{Memory Infobox
|description = Rome's sewer system.
|description = Rome's sewer system.
|appearance  = ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]''
||location = [[Campagna District]], [[Rome]], [[Italy]]
|location   = [[Antico District]], [[Rome]], [[Italy]]
|dateconstructed = Circa 600 BCE
|image      = sewer.jpg
|functions = Sewer
|date        = Constructed circa 600 BC}}
|features = [[Lairs of Romulus|Lair of Romulus]]
The '''Cloaca Maxima''' (''English: Greatest Sewer'') was located in the [[Antico District]] of [[Rome]], and acted as the city's primary sewer system.
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|commissioner = Tarquinius}}
The '''Cloaca Maxima''' (English: ''Greatest Sewer'') is one of the world's earliest sewage systems, constructed in ancient [[Rome]]. Its remains survive to this day and it is partly still in use.


Constructed in ancient Rome in order to drain local marshes and remove the waste of one of the world's most populous cities, it carried an effluent to the [[Tiber River]], which ran beside the city. This made it one of the most innovative pieces of infrastructure of its time, as well as one of the world's earliest sewage systems.
==History==
The Cloaca Maxima was one of the world's first major sewage systems. Records suggest it was first built as early as 600 BCE under order of King [[Lucius Tarquinius Priscus|Tarquinius]] of Rome. Aside from taking sewage away from the city, it is widely accepted that the Cloaca was used to drain the once swampy location of the [[Roman Forum]].<ref name="Database">''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]'' – [[Database: Cloaca Maxima]]</ref>


==Trivia==
During the [[Renaissance]], the Cloaca Maxima had been taken over by the [[Followers of Romulus]], and turned into one of their [[Lair of Romulus|lairs]].<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood''</ref>
*The location appears as a [[Secret Location]] and a [[Lairs of Romulus|Lair of Romulus]] in ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]''.


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==Appearances==
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*''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]''
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==References==
[[Category:Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Secret Locations]]
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Latest revision as of 23:07, 14 October 2021

The Cloaca Maxima (English: Greatest Sewer) is one of the world's earliest sewage systems, constructed in ancient Rome. Its remains survive to this day and it is partly still in use.

History[edit | edit source]

The Cloaca Maxima was one of the world's first major sewage systems. Records suggest it was first built as early as 600 BCE under order of King Tarquinius of Rome. Aside from taking sewage away from the city, it is widely accepted that the Cloaca was used to drain the once swampy location of the Roman Forum.[1]

During the Renaissance, the Cloaca Maxima had been taken over by the Followers of Romulus, and turned into one of their lairs.[2]

Appearances[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. Assassin's Creed: BrotherhoodDatabase: Cloaca Maxima
  2. Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood