Roman Aqueduct of Merida
by Weston Westmoreland
Title
Roman Aqueduct of Merida
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Weston Westmoreland
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Photograph - Photograph
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Roman Aqueduct, Merida, Spain.
Night panoramic view of the ruins of the aqueduct of Merida, the former Roman city of Emerita Augusta. This aqueduct was later called the Aqueduct of the Miracles by the middle age people, as they could not understand how it had been built and still stood.
This aqueduct, built in the 1st Century, is peculiar in Roman architecture as it combines granite and brick.
Only a relatively small stretch of the aqueduct still stands, consisting of 38 arched pillars standing 82 feet high along a course of some 2,700 feet. It is an "opus mixtum" - granite ashlar blocks interspersed with red brick - in a double arcade arrangement.
The aqueduct, one of three built at Mérida, is preserved as part of the Archaeological Ensemble of Mérida, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Emerita Augusta was the capital of Lusitania one of the three Roman provinces that comformed the Spanish territories. It was founded in 25 BC by Augustus to resettle veteran soldiers discharged from the Roman army from Legio V Alaudae and Legio X Gemina.
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August 25th, 2019
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