On Friday we went to Le Pont du Gard. It is a Roman aqueduct and it is the tallest of them all at 158 ft. The Romans started to build between 50 - 19 B.C. and it transported water from Uzess to Nimes. It was a 30 mile canal that dropped one inch every 350 feet and supplied nine million gallons of water per day (100 gallons per second) to one of ancient Europe’s largest cities (Nimes).
We canoed five miles down the river – right under Le Pont du Gard.
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