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The next day was glorious weather. As the site for the Pond Du Gard did not open until the afternoon, we had a lazy morning at the site and then set off around the corner to the location. We had lunch in the car park (having priced the cafe) and walked up to see the Roman equivalent of the Millau Bridge, only this time it carried water. The children were most unimpressed, but this fell well and truely in to the big engineering project which you might of guessed I do like. This bridge was part of the 80km Nimes Aquduect bringing water from Uzes to Nimes. The Aqueduct is still visable at a number of places along the route and at Pont Du Gard is at its most obvious, and to think that is might have vanished from history if there was not a backlash against the worst of the French Revolution and its policy to destroy old and historic buildings. It is now on the World Heritage Site list.
The location has couple of museums, one for the children (lots of hands on activities) and one for the adults (reconstructions of the the aqueduct and the plumbing in roman villas etc).
A good day and very informative and set us up for the next day of roman remains, a trip to Nimes before swinging around to Avignon for a bit of more modern history.
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