Experiences labelled with 'the Pont du Gard'
The Roman Empire is known for a lot of things, including feeding Christians to lions, inventing the alphabet, and popularizing the cucumber (yes, really!). The Romans were so good at empire-building that many of their edifices survive, relatively unscathed, twenty centuries later—including the Pont du Gard aqueduct bridge near Remoulins, France. The Pont du Gard Roman aqueduct was constructed to the city of Nîmes in the south of France. People had been living in the region for thousands of years before it became part of the Roman colony of Gaul in 45 B.C. The Pont du Gard aqueduct was built in the first century A.D., when Nîmes was home to about 20,000 Roman citizens. In the past, the city had relied on the spring at ...
