Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 February 2025. Type of aqueduct built in ancient Rome See also: List of aqueducts in the Roman Empire The multiple arches of the Pont du Gard in Roman Gaul (modern-day southern France). The upper tier encloses an aqueduct that carried water to Nimes in Roman times; its lower tier was expanded in the ...
Name Built Water source Length Aqua Appia: 312 BCE springs 10 miles (16 km) to the east of Rome 10 miles (16 km); underground from its source for 7 miles (11 km), then on arches for 3 miles (4.8 km) to its terminus in the Forum Boarium in Campus Martius
A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Liste des aqueducs romains]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|fr|Liste des aqueducs romains}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Help; Learn to edit; Community portal; Recent changes; Upload file
Estimates of total water supplied in a day by all aqueducts vary from 520,000 m 3 (140,000,000 US gal) to 1,127,220 m 3 (297,780,000 US gal) [1]: 156-7 [2]: 347 , mostly sourced from the Aniene river and the Apennine Mountains [citation needed], serving a million citizens [citation needed].
Acqua Vergine Antica, which travels underground through some of the same channels constructed by Agrippa's engineers, proceeds into Rome on the northeast under Via di Pietralata, at a point formerly called Fosso Pietralata, crosses Via Nomentana, flows westward toward and through the park of Villa Ada, passes under the western limits of the ...
This page was last edited on 22 February 2022, at 20:26 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
Aqua Anio Novus (Latin for "New Anio aqueduct") was an ancient Roman aqueduct supplying the city of Rome. Like the Aqua Claudia , it was begun by emperor Caligula in 38 AD and completed in 52 AD by Claudius [ 1 ] : 11 [ 2 ] : 271 [ 3 ] : §21 , who dedicated them both on August 1 [ 1 ] : 11 .