Pont du Gard

I had low expectations of the Pont du Gard, being a bit sceptical of 3 star sites in the Michelin guide.   But it’s hard not to be impressed by the scale of its engineering, making it possible to bring water from the Eure to Nîmes forty miles to the south, across the valley of the Gardon and making the feats of Telford in the nineteenth century look purile:-

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  1. Edward Chaney's avatar Edward Chaney says:

    Yr second slide almost the same view as Ynigo Jones (almost) sketched in 1609 (he visited but used an engraving as the basis for said sketch though he’d no doubt have liked us to believe otherwise); see Chaney und Wilks, The Jacobean Grand Tour (I.B. Tauris, 2014), pp. 130-31… Great slides of Uzes…xe

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