Aqueduct

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  • Català: Un aqüeducte és una construcció feta per l'home per a transportar aigua d'un indret a un altre, evitant desnivells i d'altres accidents geogràfics pronunciats.
  • Deutsch: Ein Aquädukt ist eine künstliche Wasserleitung, um Wasser von einem Punkt zu einem anderen zu befördern, teils unter Überwindung von natürlichen Hindernissen wie Bergen und Tälern.
  • English: An aqueduct is an artificial (man-made) channel that is constructed to convey water from one location to another. Canal aqueducts are water bridges for shipping, also known as canal bridges.
  • Español: Un acueducto es un canal artificial construído para conducir el agua desde un lugar a otro.
  • Français : Un aqueduc est un ouvrage destiné à l'adduction d'eau pour la consommation d'une ville.

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Pont du Gard [edit]

System-search.svg See also: Pont du Gard

  • Pont du Gard, France

  • Pont du Gard

  • Pont du Gard

  • Pont du Gard

  • Interior, Pont du Gard

  • Pont du Gard

  • Castellum à Nîmes, qui permettait de répartir l'eau dans les quartier de la ville.

Aqueduct of Segovia [edit]

System-search.svg See also: Aqueduct of Segovia

  • Quality images Aqueduct of Segovia

  • Aqueduct of Segovia, Spain

  • Aqueduct of Segovia, Spain

  • Aqueduct of Segovia, Spain

  • Segovia Acueducto 02 JMM.JPG

  • Aerial view

  • Detail

  • Arch

Other Roman aqueducts [edit]

  • Aqua Claudia in Rome

  • Porta Maggiore; part of Aqua Claudia and Aqua Anio Novus, Rome

  • Acueducto de los Milagros, Mérida, Spain

  • Acueducto de Rabo de Buey-SanLazaro, Mérida, Spain

  • Acueducto de San Lázaro, Mérida, Spain

  • Aspendos, Asia Minor

  • Featured picturesQuality images Aqueduct of Luynes, Indre-et-Loire, France)

  • Map Eifelwasserleitung (Eifel aqueduct)

  • "Eifelwasserleitung", Eifel aqueduct, profile, Buschhoven, Germany

  • Eifelwasserleitung

  • Entry to Eifel aqueduct for revisions

  • Eifelwasserleitung near Kreuzweingarten, highly calcified

  • Reconstructed roman Eifel aqueduct near Mechernich, Germany

  • "Römersteine", in Mainz-Zahlbach, Germany

  • aqueduct in Petra, Jordania

  • Syphon

  • Tunnel, little hills were crossed by tunnels

  • Wide valleys were spanned by the "typical" aqueducts

  • Aqueduct near Tarragona, Spain

  • Fréjus (Forum Julii) part 1

  • Fréjus (Forum Julii) part 2

  • Fréjus (Forum Julii) part 3

  • Fréjus (Forum Julii) part 3 from another angle

  • The Dorchester aqueduct viewed from Poundbury hillfort, Dorset, U.K.

  • The Pont d'Aël in the Aosta Valley

  • The castellum aquae in Pompeii where the spur from the Aqua Augusta terminates

Non-Roman aqueducts [edit]

Canal bridges [edit]

English: Canal bridges are aqueducts that are navigable by boats
System-search.svg See also categories: Canal aqueducts and Aqueducts
System-search.svg See also: Aqueduto das Águas Livres
System-search.svg See also: Aqua Claudia
System-search.svg See also: Eifel aqueduct
System-search.svg See also category: Canal aqueducts
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