Wonder · Ancient Engineering
A Bridge Built for Water
The Pont du Gard
The question
What was the Pont du Gard originally built to carry?
- Water(correct answer)
- Soldiers
- Royal carriages
The answer: Water
Built in the middle of the first century CE, the Pont du Gard carried a water channel across the Gardon River in southern France. It was part of an aqueduct about 50 kilometres long that supplied the Roman city of Nemausus, today's Nîmes. Its three tiers of arches rise almost 49 metres.
- Civilization
- Ancient Rome
- Region
- Western Europe
- Period
- Mid-1st century CE
- Location
- Gardon valley, near Nîmes, France
- Featured in
- Daily Discovery #001 · 2 November 2026
Image: Marc Ryckaert, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons (cropped) (image source, opens in a new tab)
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