Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Vestiges de l'aqueduc romain
Luynes, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Aqueduc romain (vestiges) (cad. F 1, 2, 5) : classement par liste de 1862
- Protection dates
- 1862 : classé MH
- Type
- aqueduc
- Main period of construction
- Antiquité
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Luynes
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.39809, 0.56867
- Mérimée reference
- PA00097846
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1592 map "Topographia Aug. Turon Ducatus et confinium Gallia Cestica ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Cet aqueduc aérien d'environ trois cent mètres, construit en blocage et parement de petit appareil, alimentait en eau une villa gallo-romaine.
English translation
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History
This aerial aqueduct of approximately three hundred metres, built in rubble with small ashlar facing, supplied water to a Gallo-Roman villa.
Nearby in the register
- La Mignonneriefermeunder 1 mi
- Ancien prieuré de Saint-Venantprieuréunder 1 mi
- Chapelle des Chanoinesseschapelleunder 1 mi
- Château de Châtignychâteau1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.