Pont du Gard

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1. Story
2. The three-tiered aqueduct bridge carrying the Nemausus (Nîmes) aqueduct across the Gardon. It is the most legible surviving demonstration of the surveying achievement behind Roman water supply: the full channel runs about 50 km with an average gradient measured in centimetres per kilometre. It matters to this journey as evidence that the civic package - water, baths, monumental building - was delivered to provincial cities, not only to Rome. UNESCO World Heritage ref. 344.
3. Knowledge
4. The Roman Aqueduct System
5. Pont du Gard
6. The voussoir arch
7. Connections
8. The voussoir arch
9. The Roman Aqueduct System
10. The Pont du Gard carries an aqueduct on three tiers of arches
11. Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre), Rome
12. Pont du Gard
13. Load path
14. Corbelling (the false arch and false dome)
15. Corbelling (the false arch and false dome)
16. The dome
17. The Gothic rib vault
18. Roman builders adopt pozzolanic concrete
19. The Pont du Gard carries an aqueduct on three tiers of arches
20. The Colosseum opens: arch and concrete at civic scale
21. Roman Citizenship (civitas Romana)
22. Pont du Gard
23. Construction of the Via Appia begins
24. Evidence
25. The three-tiered bridge carried the aqueduct supplying Nemausus (Nîmes) across the Gardon and is the best-preserved demonstration of Roman hydraulic surveying, evidencing that the imperial civic package of water supply and public building was delivered in the provinces, not only at Rome.
26. Frontinus, as curator aquarum, describes the aqueducts serving Rome, their sources, lengths, administration, maintenance staff and the fraud he found in illegal tapping. It is the empire's clearest surviving evidence that infrastructure was run by an accountable civil office with records, not merely built.