Aqueduc antique de Balaruc (également sur commune de Balaruc-les-Bains)

Balaruc-le-Vieux, Hérault, France

The record

Designation: Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection: inscrit MH
Extent of protection: En totalité, les tronçons identifiés de l'aqueduc situés en souterrain sous les parcelles AB 62 à 65, 68, 71 à 73 ; AC 156, 148 ; AM 8 à 10 (non cadastré, cf plan annexé à l'arrêté) : inscription par arrêté du 17 avril 2008
Protection dates: 2008/07/17 : inscrit MH
Type: site archéologique, aqueduc
Main period of construction: Antiquité
Ownership: propriété de la commune
Commune: Balaruc-le-Vieux
Département: Hérault
Region: Occitanie
Country: France
Coordinates: 43.46958, 3.69109
Mérimée reference: PA34000070

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1752 map "Languedoc." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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Historique

Ouvrage antique, rare témoin archéologique du génie civil romain conservé de sa source jusqu'à son terme.

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History

Antique work, rare archaeological witness of Roman civil engineering preserved from its source to its terminus.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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