Roma Vecchia-
Porta Maggiore
Roman aqueducts: Roma Vecchia - Porta Maggiore (Rome, Italy)
Roma Vecchia - Porta Maggiore
Remains of the Aqua Claudia and the Aqua Marcia are prominent at several places along this route to the southeast of Rome. All five of Rome's long and
high volume aqueducts from the upper Anio followed the same narrow and barely visible crest of land into town, the waters to the north of which drain to
the nearly Anio, those on the south side to the Tiber by way of the Marrana della Caffarella.
This low ridge that carried the ancient aqueducts is still a well-used utility strip for modern Rome, carrying the still-functioning 16th century aqueduct of
pope Sixtus V called the Acqua Felice, as well as the railroad lines to Naples. Formerly the ridge also carried the trench of the Aqua Marrana Mariana,
a medieval project bringing water from the Alban Hills to the Lateran section of town.
From: J.P. Aicher (1995): Guide to the aqueducts of Rome, pag 80
Recommended literature :
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- Peter J. Aicher (1995): Guide to the aqueducts of Ancient Rome
- E.B. van Deman (1934): The building of the Roman aqueducts
- Th. Ashby (1935): The Aqueducts of ancient Rome
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How to visit :
| see the detailed desciptions in Aicher's book.
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