(Photographic archive Anthony Maurin).
It is not really significant, it is a minor withdrawn from tourist walks but its record tends to make it some thing nearly exceptional. Right here is the castellum aquae, the drinking water tower that dispersed the treasured liquid that arrived via the Pont du Gard to Roman Nîmes.
Of training course, what you can see passing in entrance of the castellum is not bombastic, but its rarity can make it one of the rare illustrations of this construction nonetheless seen. Aside from Pompeii, handful of similar structures are however standing, 2000 many years following their construction. A piece that could not be more practical reworked into a unusual historic pearl, this drinking water tower will allow us currently to assess 2,000 several years of history and we can say, observing it, that …
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