Aqueduct
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Aflaj irrigation system | Al-Jilla | |
| Agrigento | "The site boundary includes (...) the complex network of underground aqueducts" (Official description) - Northwest of the sanctuary of the chthonic deities, a valley cuts through the southern range of hills. It is assumed that the large water basin known as Kolymbéthra, which served to supply the city with water, was also located here. After the basin silted up, fertile orchards and vegetable gardens emerged, the Gardens of Kolymbéthra. The underground water channels and aqueducts that supplied water to the city in ancient times can still be seen today and are now used to irrigate the gardens. | |
| Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque | a hydraulic system of water aqueducts located in the Mexican Central Plateau (AB ev) | |
| Banska Stiavnica | Kysihýbel aqueduct | |
| Berat and Gjirokastra | The citadel of Gjirokastra had underground reservoirs to store water provided by an aqueduct, which was some 10km long, one of the longest of the period. (AB Ev) | |
| Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe | large 'ruined' Aqueduct (AB ev) | |
| Biblical Tells | Megiddo | |
| Butrint | Ruins of the Roman aqueduct | |
| Canal du Midi | ||
| Danube Limes | Carnuntum (ID No 31): "In the western slope of the Pfaffenberg, an aqueduct can be closed due to an array of columns." (Nomination file, p. 78) | |
| Derwent Valley Mills | ||
| Dougga/Thugga | "An aqueduct leading to the city, located a short distance from the well-preserved cisterns, is amongst the best preserved examples of this type of structure on the territory of modern-day Tunisia." (wiki) | |
| Elvas | Amoreira Aqueduct | |
| Evora | ||
| First Coffee Plantations | Elaborate channels, often built as arcaded aqueducts (as at San Luís de Jacas) (Long Description) | |
| Historic Cairo | Aqueduct of Cairo (Sour Megra Eleyoon) | |
| Istanbul | aqueduct of Valens | |
| Kasbah of Algiers | The water which supplies the old medina (...) was conveyed by a network of aqueducts dating from the time of the regency of Algiers, which is still in place; it is now replaced by a more modern distribution network, dating from the beginning of the 20th century. (French wiki) | |
| Lake District | Thirlmere Aqueduct | |
| Las Medulas | Remains of seven parallel aqueducts | |
| Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape | ||
| Lower German Limes | Amongst the archaeological remains are .. an aqueduct.. (AB ev) (at Berg en Dal) | |
| Lyon | ||
| Medina Azahara | aqueduct (the Roman aqueduct was used as sewage) | |
| Meknes | Aqueduct of Bab Berda | |
| Morelia | ||
| Mérida | ||
| Old City of Acre | Acre-Cabri Aqueduct (1815) | |
| Palenque | ||
| Pergamon | Water was brought to cisterns and fountains on Kale Hill (which had no source of its own) by ceramic pipes and lead pipelines under pressure from mountains some 50km to the north of the city (AB ev) | |
| Petra | "Petra's aqueduct system carried about 40 million liters (12 million gallons) of fresh spring water per day" | |
| Pompei | ||
| Pont du Gard | ||
| Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal | Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Chirk Aqueduct | |
| Potosi | "industrial monuments of the Cerro Rico, where water is provided by an intricate system of aqueducts and artificial lakes" | |
| Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos | Eupalinian aqueduct | |
| Qhapaq Ñan | Caranqui | |
| Querétaro | ||
| Rammelsberg and Goslar | Sperberhaier Damm | |
| Rome | "the water systems (drainage, aqueducts" (OUV) | |
| Royal Palace at Caserta | ||
| San Antonio Missions | Espada Aqueduct (1745) oldest Spanish aqueduct in the United States - NPS | |
| Segovia | ||
| Syracuse | The "large artificial grotto called "Nympheo" (...) has a vaulted ceiling and a rectangular bath, covered with potsherd, into which pours water from a branch of a Greek aqueduct." (Nomination file, p. 106) – "The water that flows into the Grotta derives from two separate aqueducts, both of Greek date; one is called the Acquedotto del Ninfeo (Nymphaeum Aqueduct) after the Grotta, while the other is the Galermi Aqueduct." | |
| Tak'alik Ab'aj | "in the residential areas a system was devised to supply drinking water by means of aqueducts" (AB ev) | |
| Tarraco | ||
| Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley | Xiquila Aqueduct, built around AD 400. | |
| University of Coimbra | Aqueduct of São Sebastião (16th Century) | |
| Via Appia | "The Via Appia is also accompanied by a monumental ensemble of temples, funerary monuments, aqueducts and villas, and at city entrances, triumphal arches, gates or such amenities as theatres, amphitheatres or baths which all bear witness to an ancient civilisation." (AB ev) | |
| Villa Romana del Casale | Villa Romana del Casale – "The Villa Romana del Casale received its water supply from two aqueducts. One entered from the North and fed the piscina or pool of the baths. There are several remaining parts of this aqueduct along the entrance to the villa. The other aqueduct entered from the East, feeding a reservoir behind the Triclinium." | |
| Water Management System of Augsburg | The entire bridge structure was completed in 1777, and still spans the city moat today ...The aqueduct served to enable pedestrians and the Vorderer Lech (Western Lech Canal) to cross the dry city moat: at the lower level, the water was transported via a walled channel to the waterworks at the Rotes Tor, while the upper level served a bridge to access the Rotes Tor. (Nom file) | |
| Zacatecas | The El Cubo aqueduct was built at the end of the 18th century to carry water from the El Cubo mine area, which gave the structure its name. Only a few arches of it remain. (wiki) |
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