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This is France’s most impressive architectural masterpiece
The Pont du Gard is one of the greatest masterpieces ... ensuring the stability of the structure for almost two thousand years. And the results speak for themselves, as the bridge stood the ...
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Arch Bridge
The Pont du Gard aqueduct The Romans used stones ... the stones in the rest of the structure stay together by the sheer force of their own weight. The wooden rainbow bridge depicted in this ...
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Aqueducts: Quenching Rome’s Thirst
The popular image many people have of an aqueduct is probably something like the spectacular bridge structure of the Pont du Gard in southern France. These aboveground arches were, in fact ...
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Le pont après l'abandon de l'aqueduc
La Renaissance, qui haussa l'Antiquité au rang de modèle absolu, ne manqua pas de s'intéresser au pont du Gard, l'un des plus spectaculaires monuments romains subsistant en France. Charles IX passa ...