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 ...

The Pont du Gard bridge is the highest and one of the ... before it fell into disrepair as the empire declined and the aqueduct became clogged with mineral deposits. French philosopher, Jean ...

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 ...

The Pont du Gard, built on the Gardon River in southern France, is the tallest of the ancient Roman aqueduct bridges crisscrossing the region and also one of the best-preserved. The historical ...

Plans to build a vast Amazon sorting centre within sight of France's famed Pont du Gard are an “affront” to the Roman’s greatest aqueduct that is a Unesco world treasure, say detractors.

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.

THE first time I really looked at the Pont du Gard, near Nîmes in southern France, my reaction was not, as it should have been: "My word, what a stupendous example of Roman architecture.

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 ...