Aqueduct of Segovia

UNESCO World Heritage Site (Old Town Of Segovia And Its Aqueduct, Inscribed 1985), A First Or Second Century Roman Aqueduct Built Of Unmortared Granite And In Use For Roughly Nineteen Centuries · Segovia, Castile and Leon

A Roman aqueduct standing in the middle of a working Spanish city, free to walk under, and built entirely without mortar. Around twenty thousand blocks of local granite were cut and stacked so that friction and their own weight hold them, which is why it survives when almost every mortared Roman structure in Spain has not. It runs about eight hundred metres across the valley on two tiers of arches, rising to roughly twenty-eight metres at the Plaza del Azoguejo where the ground drops away, and it carried water from the Sierra de Guadarrama into the city for something close to nineteen centuries; parts of the system were in use into the twentieth. What makes it extraordinary is the ordinariness of the setting: cars pass under it, bars put tables against it, and people who live in Segovia walk past it without looking up. Come at the Azoguejo end for the height, then climb the stair beside it to see the channel at the top.

Plaza del Azoguejo 1, Segovia, Castile and Leon, 40001, Spain

NO OPENING TIME HERE WAS CHECKED, AND IT HAS NONE. The aqueduct stands in a public square with no gate and no ticket, so it is open at every hour of every day and is floodlit after dark, which is the best time to see it. The public stair beside the Azoguejo end is likewise open. What has hours are the other Segovia monuments: the CATHEDRAL and the ALCAZAR keep their own separate schedules with shorter winter opening. Confirm those two rather than this.

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