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On the right side of the wash-house there is the following notice:
"Here flows Cefalino, healthier than any other river, purer than silver, colder than snow."
The legend tells that Cefalino generated from the unceasing tears of a nymph who repented having punished with death the infidelity of her beloved.
Up to a few decades ago the women of the town still used to go and wash their clothes at these pure running waters, and the echoes of their voices and of their songs full of jolliness could be heard.
The site can be reached from a so called "a lumachella" (“snail-like”) staircase, which goes down to a space half-covered by a low vault. The water that flows from the pithead in three walls contributes with its noise to the unique connotation of this environment. Finally, the water that flows inside the pools of the Wash-house reaches the sea through a small hole.