• Pont du Gard (Roman Aqueduct)

  Pont du Gard (Roman Aqueduct)

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  <img src=’http://whc.unesco.org/uploads/sites/site_344.jpg‘ target=’blank‘ align=’left‘ style=’padding:5px‘>The Pont du Gard was built shortly before the Christian era to allow the aqueduct of N&#xee;mes (which is almost 50 km long) to cross the Gard river. The Roman architects and hydraulic engineers who designed this bridge, which stands almost 50 m high and is on three levels – the longest measuring 275 m – created a technical as well as an artistic masterpiece.

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