Pont du Gard

The Pont du Gard crosses the Gardon river in the commune of Vers-Pont-du-Gard, in the Gard department of southern France, a short distance from the small town of Remoulins and some twenty-five kilometres north-east of Nîmes. It is not a bridge in the ordinary sense. What survives is the centrepiece of a Roman aqueduct, and the arches were built not to carry people or carts but to hold a covered water channel level as it...