Las Tomas

Las Thomas aqueduct The water of the third aqueduct, Las Tomas, comes from separate springs on the N and NE side of Merida. In order to cross the Rio Albarregas river there was a 1600 m long aqueduct bridge of which only three pillars of 16 m high each are left on the town side of the river next to the hippodrome. In the 16th century most of the other pillars were used to construct a new aqueduct bridge, that of San L zaro. Close to the Casa del Anfiteatro (House at the Amphitheater) the Los Thomas aqueduct runs on a wall, and a lion head of stone was found nearby which was in use as a gutter-spout.On the same spot there are remnants of a castellum.

Three pillars	Sideview I	Side view II	Detail
Remains of San Lazaro	San Lazaro aquduct bridge	Ground plan	Detail
Conduit I	Conduit II	Ground plan	Castellum Aquae
Castellum aquae