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Structure-ID: s0000256
Created on: 05/19/99
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Pont du Gard

Built: 1st century
Status: out of service
Location: Near Nimes, Gard (30), Languedoc-Roussillon, France
Crosses: Gardon River
Pont du Gard
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Structural Type:
Arch bridge
Function / usage:
Aqueduct
later use: Road bridge
Part of: Nimes Roman Aqueduct

Persons involved with this structure
Legend: Phase of works
RoleNamePart of structure 
Widening
Designer Henri Pitot

Technical information
DescriptionValue
Construction materials used
piers  stone
arches  stone
Dimensions
  height 47.40 m
  total length 275 m
  span lengths max. 24.40 m
  slope of channel 0.19 m / km
  width of channel 1.20 m

Chronology
40 A.D.- 60
Approximate period of construction which is estimated to have taken 15 years in total for the entire aqueduct and 5 years for the Pont du Gard. Built in the reign of the emperors Claudius and Nero.
1743- 1745
Lower arches widened to accommodate road bridge under the authority of Henri Pitot.
1843- 1850
Restoration by architects Questel and Laisné due to Prosper Mérimée's interventions.
6 December 1985
Added to the World Heritage List of UNESCO.

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External LinkAqueduc romain de Nîmes French
External LinkarchINFORM: Pont du Gard English German Spanish Italian French
External LinkAu Pays du Pont du Gard French
External LinkBroer.no: Pont du Gard Norwegian
External LinkCETE Méditerranée: Pont du Gard: inspection des massifs de fondation French
External LinkDemathieu et Bard: Réparation d'ouvrages: Pont du Gard - Confortement des appuis - (30) French
External LinkGreat Buildings Online: Pont du Gard English
External LinkLe Pont du Gard et l'aqueduc romain de Nîmes French
External LinkUNESCO: Sites du Patrimoine Mondial: Pont du Gard French
External LinkWikipédia: Pont du Gard French

Relevant Literature
* Cure de santé pour le pont du Gar, in "Le Moniteur des Travaux Publics et du Bâtiment", 10 June 2005, n. 5298 .
* Provence romaine et Pré-romaine (1st edition), Edisud, Aix-en-Provence (France) , ISBN 274490354X, 2003; pp. 18-19.
* Abdo, Joseph   Un ruban de béton pour le pont du Gard, in "Travaux", September 2002, n. 789 .
* Bonatz, Paul   Brücken, Karl Robert Langewiesche Verlag, Königstein im Taunus (Germany) , 1956; pp. 35-6.
* Bonin, Jacques   L'eau dans l'antiquité. L'hydraulique avant notre ère, Edition Eyrolles, Paris (France) , 1984.
* Bussagli, Marco   Qu'est-ce que l'architecture?, Editions Gründ, Paris (France) , ISBN 2700012232, 2005; pp. 226-227.
* Chastel, André   L'art français (tome 1), Flammarion, Paris (France) , ISBN 2080109677, 1993.
* Corvisier, Christian   Pont du Gard, presented at Congrès archéologique de France - Monuments du Gard, 157éme session.
* Denizeau, Gérard   Histoire visuelle des Monuments de France, Larousse, Paris (France) , ISBN 2035052017, 2003; pp. 24-25.
* Dupré, Judith   Bridges, Black Dog & Leventhal, New York (USA) , ISBN 1884822754, 1997; pp. 14-15.
* Dupré, Judith   Brücken, Könemann, Cologne (Germany) , ISBN 3829004095, 1998; pp. 14-15.
* Dupré, Judith   Les ponts, Könemann, Cologne (Germany) , ISBN 3829004109; pp. 14-15.
* Esperandieu   Le Pont du Gard et l'Aqueduc de Nîmes, Jacques Lanor / Henri Laurens, ISBN 2862680125, 1991.
* Fabre, G.   The Pont du Gard, Presses du CNRS, Paris (France) , ISBN 287682079X, 1992.
* Fabre, Guilhem   L'aqueduc de Nîmes et le Pont du Gard (2nd edition), CNRS Éditions, Paris (France) , ISBN 2271057310, 2000.
* Fiches, Jean-Pierre   Le Pont du Gard, Monum. Editions du patrimoine, Paris (France) , ISBN 2858226105.
* Grattesat, Guy   Ponts de France, Presses Ponts et chaussées, Paris (France) , ISBN 2859780300, 1984; pp. 12, 60.
* Hachache, Nora   Le pont du Gard retrouve sa garrigue, in "Le Moniteur des Travaux Publics et du Bâtiment", 15 August 2003, n. 5203 .
* Hauck, George F. W.   Structural Design of the Pont du Gard, in "Journal of Structural Engineering (ASCE)", January 1986, n. 1 v. 112 .
* Lamprecht, Heinz-Otto   Opus Caementitium (4th edition), Beton-Verlag, Düsseldorf (Germany) , ISBN 3764003103, 1993; pp. 88, 92-95.
* Lassalle, Victor   Le pont du Gard et l'aqueduc de Nîmes, in "Dossiers d'Archéologie", October - November 1979, n. 38 .
* Leonhardt, Fritz   Brücken / Bridges (4th edition), Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart (Germany) , ISBN 3421025908, 1994; pp. 70-73.
* Marrey, Bernard   Les ponts modernes - 18e et 19e siècles (1st edition), Picard Editeur, Paris (France) , ISBN 2708404016, 1990; pp. 34-35.
* Mesqui, Jean   Le pont en France avant le temps des ingénieurs, Paris (France) , 1986.
* Montens, Serge   Les plus beaux ponts de France, Bonneton, Paris (France) , ISBN 2862532754, 2001; pp. 8, 10-11.
* Pérouse de Montclos, Jean-Marie   Le guide du Patrimoine: Languedoc, Roussilon, Ministère de la Culture, Hachette, Paris (France) , ISBN 2012423337, 1996; pp. 456-460.
* Prade, Marcel   Les ponts monuments historiques, Editions Brissaud, Poitiers (France) , ISBN 2903442819, 1988; pp. 179-181.
* Quaranta, Arnaud   Le Passage (1st edition), Everest Communication, Luxembourg (Luxembourg) , ISBN 287996976X, 1999; pp. 88-89.
* Ruddock, Ted   Masonry Bridges, Viaducts and Aqueducts, Ashgate Publishing Company, Burlington (USA) , ISBN 0860787516, 2000.
* Sadler, Heiner   Brücken, Harenberg Kommunikation, Dortmund (Germany) , ISBN 3-88379-498-8, 1986; pp. 20-21.
* von Wölfel, Wilhelm   Bauplanung im Altertum, in "[ Umrisse ]", 2002, n. 3 v. 2 .
* von Wölfel, Wilhelm   Brunnen - Brücken - Aquädukte, in "Bautechnik", 1997 .
* Ward-Perkins, John Bryan   Roman Imperial Architecture, Yale University Press, New Haven (USA) , ISBN 0300052928, 1981; pp. 224-225.
* Wittfoht, Hans   Buiding bridges, Beton-Verlag, Düsseldorf (Germany) , ISBN 3764001763, 1984.

 
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