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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 October 2024. 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 ...
Route of the Aqua Appia Map of Aqua Appia in Rome. The Aqua Appia was the first Roman aqueduct [1]: 47 , and its construction was begun in 312 BC by the censor Appius Claudius Caecus [2] [3]: 148 [4]: 338-9 [5]: 23 , who also built the important Via Appia.
The route of the Eifel aqueduct, with its average slope. The Eifel Aqueduct was one of the longest aqueducts of the Roman Empire.. The aqueduct, constructed in AD 80, carried water some 95 kilometres (59 mi) from the hilly Eifel region of what is now Germany to the ancient city of Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium (present-day Cologne).
built in 1870; source: springs near Subiaco, east of Rome; length: 56 miles (90 km); underground for 50 miles (80 km) in the channel of Aqua Marcia, then on arches for 6 miles (9.7 km) to its terminus at the Fountain of the Naiads on the Viminal Hill; Acqua Vergine Nuova. built in 1937; source: springs in Salone, east of Rome
This is a list of aqueducts in the Roman Empire. For a more complete list of known and possible Roman aqueducts and Roman bridges see List of Roman bridges . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
Roman aqueducts were built in all parts of the Roman Empire, from Germany to Africa, and especially in the city of Rome, where they totalled over 415 kilometres (258 mi). The aqueducts supplied fresh water to public baths and for drinking water, in large cities across the empire, and set a standard of engineering that was not surpassed for more ...
Hadrian built the bridge also to shorten the route by about 1.5 km (0.93 mi). The bridge is made of Roman concrete covered with opus reticulatum with the use of tufa blocks in the abutments and brickwork for the arch. It has a notable asymmetry due to the connection with the original channels at each end which were of widely different levels at ...
The Ponte S. Antonio is considered one of the most beautiful bridges of aqueducts supplying Rome. [7] It crosses the Acqua Raminga stream and is named after an ancient sanctuary now disappeared. The central and original nucleus of the bridge was of opus quadratum , of which the imposing central arch stands out, 32 m high and 10 m span.