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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 ...
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
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.
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 ...
The Pont du Gard is an ancient Roman aqueduct bridge built in the first century AD to carry water over 50 km (31 mi) to the Roman colony of Nemausus . [3] It crosses the river Gardon near the town of Vers-Pont-du-Gard in southern France. The Pont du Gard is one of the best preserved Roman aqueduct bridges.
Map of the Aqua Alexandrina outside of Rome Aqua Alexandrina in Rome. The aqueduct was constructed in AD 226 as the last of the eleven ancient aqueducts of Rome.It was built under the reign of Emperor Alexander Severus to supply his enlargement of the Baths of Nero, which were renamed Thermae Alexandrinae.
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).