The Pont du Gard is one of the greatest masterpieces of ancient Roman engineering, and one of the few aqueducts of this era still standing today. In the heart of Occitania, between Nîmes and ...

The Pont du Gard was built shortly before the Christian era to allow the aqueduct of Nîmes (which is almost 50 km long) to cross the Gard river. The Roman architects and hydraulic engineers who ...

Built in 19 B.C., the Pont du Gard aqueduct piped water to the city of Nîmes in southern France. This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine.

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