Famous Cisterns
- Basilica Cistern in Istanbul, Turkey
- Cistern in El Jadida, Morocco
- Cistern in Silves, Portugal
- Matera
- King Asa had built a cistern and the prophet Jeremiah was later thrown in it after prophesying the Babylonian invasion
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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or cisterns:
“Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.”
—Alan Bennett (b. 1934)
“And upside down in air were towers
Tolling reminiscent bells, that kept the hours
And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)