Aqueduct of Luynes

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The aqueduct of Luynes is a former Gallo-Roman bridge-aqueduct located in Luynes, Indre-et-Loire, France. With the Cinq-Mars pile, it is the most famous Roman monument in the Indre-et-Loire department, despite its modest dimensions. It is also one of the best preserved ancient aqueducts in northwestern France.

If it is frequently mentioned in scientific or tourist publications since the seventeenth century, it is necessary to wait until 1966 for a complete study of the book to be carried out and published. More recent works, in the early 2000s, allowed progress in the knowledge of this monument, but at the same time raised new questions about its chronology and function. The aqueduct is first aerial, to cross a valley on whose side its probable captures were located whose location is not precisely identified.

It is this aerial part which is known, in a reductive way, as the aqueduct of Luynes: the remains, in the form of forty-four batteries, nine of which are still gathered by eight consecutive arches, extend over a length of about 270 meters, over the 500 meters that the...