Because the citizens of Nimes were getting a bit parched and the whiff of body odor unbearable, even for 50 AD, the Romans tapped into an underground spring at Uzes some 31 miles away. The problem was you couldn’t very well walk 31 miles every time you wanted a drink. So they built an underwater aqueduct. This worked out until they reached the Gardon River, which is why the Pont du Gard aqueduct bridge was built. It’s remarkably precise engineering, with a difference in height of one inch from one end to the other. Some two thousand years later it’s still standing. The spring is also still there. [Details]
PONT DU GARD, FRANCE
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