Virgo aqueduct

The Aqueduc Virgo ( Aqua Virgo ) was inaugurated by Agrippa the June 9th 19 av. J. - C..

The Aqueduc followed the Voie Collatina. It was on arches only on 2 km on arrival on Rome by the Pincius in particular. It was useful for the provisioning of the Champ de Mars and particularly for the pond of Clutched and the Thermes of Clutched.

The difference in altitude between the departure and the arrival, 4 meters, and the low altitude of the Aqueduc, approximately 20 meters, made impossible the fact that it can provide the high districts of Rome.

The name of the Aqueduc would come owing to the fact that an young girl would have indicated the source to the soldiers who sought water according to Frontin but it is more probable to think than the name comes owing to the fact that water was very pure.

At the time of Claude were added arches which crossed the Champ de Mars and crossed then the Latin Voie by the Arc of Claude, monumental vault which celebrated the conquest of the Brittany, whose sealing was not perfect.

Its provisioning was mainly diverted with the private uses during the time of Néron. A restoration took place under Constantin.

The Goths would have tried, at the time of the seat of 537 to use its underground channel like passage in the city.

In 1453, the pope Nicolas V reconstituted it and the Aqueduc reached the Fontaine of Trevi. Again repaired by the pope Sixth IV but in 1571 it was completely rebuilt by Pie V. Its successors, and particularly Gregoire XIII built many fountains supplied with this Aqueduc

The Aqueduc was constantly restored and it always feeds the Fontaine of Trevi and the Fontaine of Barcaccia to the Place of Spain and the Fontaine of the Four-Rivers to the Piazza Navona.

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