Pont du Gard

Pont du Gard

Unbelievable 2,000 years old this massive Limestone Bridge was built by the Romans its one purpose was to carry water across this wide river valley today it’s a UNESCO world heritage site in the south of France this is p Dugal admission to the site is free of charge however for a cost of €8 you gain access to the cinema and the visitor Cent’s Museum I’m very glad that we spent the money on the tickets the cinema shows a video that explains why they made this when and they even show

How it was Made this is the work of 1,000 men laboring for 4 years what an amazing feat of engineering I’m surprised that they were able to accomplish this 20 years ago the water source is here in the north they built 50 km of Aqueduct along a route that avoids the taller Hills and this

Allowed the delivery of some 40,000 cubic met of water per day to the city of NE which has an elevation just 12 M lower than the water’s Source here we go into the museum to see a little bit about the whole thing this is the kind of Fountain you would have

Seen all over town as the water got all the way from the other side of the country to NE the fountain supplied the people the lead pipes came lead pipes came through as we see here people collected their water and then the runoff if it ever overflowed clean

Streets of the sewage and the dirt that collected on the streets yeah sewage just collected on the street you know how it was in uh France back then piping standards were already being developed way back then valves came in the same size over and over and they could interchange them as

Needed throughout the city not much different than modern day piping a good example of their hot water tanks could have put this over a wood stove and then used hot water as they needed it third Century they had already developed a pump just a piston pump the same as we have

Today sometimes the pumps were used by the firemen when needed for fires sometimes they simply filled up up to the water tower to help it distribute around the city and then valves could be open and closed as for different needs or punishments there there’s a system of

The controller and how he decides who gets water says here sometimes they would uh have contracts people would buy water just like we do now if you don’t pay your water bill you’re cut off wouldn’t normally stand under a stone like this but I suspect that it’s probably just made of Styrofoam let’s

Hope it’s funny because you when you think back to thousands of years ago you don’t think that the people were were as advanced but when you start looking at all the architecture and all the things that they did they had very elaborate tools and levers and pulleys and

Measuring devices and they were very skilled in mathematics and building and the uh equipment that they used was far more uh technologically advanced than what you would really give them credit for or think that it would be here it is the three-level p the Gap we’re here it is incredible walking up from

The lower level bridge to the aqueduct level is a 77 step staircase doesn’t sound like much but it feels like a lot cuz they’re uneven and while you’re up here at the top level on the right Bank don’t forget to sneak through this tunnel and access

A lot of the forested trails for a nice afternoon’s walk when we visited February the top level was closed to the public you can get up there if you’re a group or if you come during the summer so we walked across the river on the lower level

Bridge hard to imagine but I’m standing underneath an arch that was built 2,000 years ago look at the way they interlock the stones as well and here’s our view on the bridge looking out that way it’s funny that somebody would have at some point said hey let’s take water

And transport it across this River but not just that let’s build this enormous bridge to take it across let’s make the biggest aqueduct in the Roman Empire take it down to NE the lower level is a walkway that’s the only level that we were allowed on to

The second level is also a walkway the canal for water transport is at the top on level three it’s February now and the flow in the garden river is barely noticeable throughout the year though this River Rises and flows dangerously fast notice that none of the lower supports sit in

The river look too at the tapered faces of each leg designed to allow the river to flow past when the water level is high little cave here in the walkway area little yeah doesn’t go in deep it’s not like a Bowling Green KY goes up high it’s pretty

High yeah no spunking here no spunking [Applause] Here what a beautiful day I’m glad we came to pontal well as they say in French set fantastic it was a wonderful day and we look forward to seeing you as always on the road check out some of our other videos and subscribe to our Channel new content will be posted weekly

This ancient bridge is actually an ancient aqueduct built 2000 years ago by the Romans.
Made to carry 40,000 cubic meters of water to the city of Nimes France, it still stands today.
We visited it – wow!

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