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 ...

Pont du Gard, Nîmes Anne Termèche 02/29/2016 February 29, 2016 Pont du Gard in southern France is regarded as one of the best known ancient aqueducts and as a prime example of Roman engineering.

Alex Ledsom is a France-based contributor who covers travel. The Pont du Gard bridge is the highest and one of the most well-preserved Roman aqueducts in the world. Built in southern France in the ...

Le pont du Gard est une véritable prouesse technique. Un millier d’hommes ont travaillé à sa construction pendant cinq ans. Avec ses 48,77 mètres de hauteur, il est le pont-aqueduc romain le ...

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." ...

En aval, le Pont Pitot, est accolé au Pont du Gard. Grâce à son édification au 18e siècle, les hommes, les charrettes et les animaux ont, depuis cette époque, traversé aisément le Gard.

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 ...

Le lieu pressenti est emblématique : il s'agit du site classé du Pont du Gard. Le concept consisterait à accueillir à terme un écosystème autour de l'eau, en réunissant des chercheurs ...