Vestiges
If the Pont du Gard is the conserved part of the aqueduct, it is just one element. There are still more than 40 km of construction or development across the region, but few are visible. The aqueduct starting from Uzès, continued toward the village of St. Maximin. Between Saint Maximin and Boisset is a few remnants of a tunnel and a bridge but the next village of Vers qu'apparaissent remains the largest with a series of arches that supported the canal. Then meet Rou Bridge, the Bridge, which became Bonègre crossing bridge after the use of the aqueduct carry the brand of wagon wheels that have dug ruts in the slabs. After passing the Pont du Gard, few remains are visible from the Pont du Gard and Saint Bonnet, it is necessary to Sernhac where part of the underground channel is visible. But then Sernhac in Nîmes, the buried channel is no longer visible. The last major of the aqueduct is in the city of Nimes with the remains of the basin water allocation. |
At all times and abandoned buildings have lost their primary function has become a career. The new manufacturers had at hand, amid the collapse of the materials prepared, easy to reuse. The stones were returned to their natural state and for all that was still standing the burden of work to recover the materials was much less important than extracting stones from the hills. So certainly were built houses in the villages surrounding the route of the aqueduct. Unlike the rest of the books on the route of the aqueduct the Pont du Gard a resist recovery because of its distance from villages, poor access and the enormity of its component blocks. |
