For #RomanSiteSaturday the aqueduct of Segovia/#Spain. It was built in the late 1st/early 2nd c. AD and supplied water to the city until the mid 19th century. It's one of the best-preserved #Roman aqueducts and an impressive work of engineering.
For #RomanSiteSaturday a section of the #Roman Eifel #aqueduct that supplied water to the city of Cologne. The vaulted underground tunnel with an inspection shaft at Mechernich-Breitenbenden was unearthed during construction work in the late 1970s. The estimated maximum flow rate of the aqueduct was 250 liters per second. At that rate, the aqueduct would have supplied Cologne with 20 million liters of water each day!
For #RomanSiteSaturday the so-called Maison Carrée ("square
House"), a temple in Nîmes, southern France. Built in the late 1st c. BC, it's one of the best preserved #Roman temples. Throughout its history, the building has been used as a church, a horse stable, and a museum.
#RomanSiteSaturday! In 2003, the late #Roman fort CONSTANTIA was discovered next to the Cathedral in Konstanz. Archaeologists had suspected it for a long time, but until then there had been no proof. The fort was built around 300 AD and abandoned around 400 AD.
For #RomanSiteSaturday let's go to my favourite #Roman site: the temple complex of #Baalbek, located in the Bekaa Valley/#Lebanon. The breathtaking
site contains some of the largest Roman temples ever built. The so-called Bacchus temple is one of the best preserved temples of the Roman period.
Baalbek is an UNESCO World Heritage site since 1984 and one of the most amazing places I have ever been to.
2/4 from Mediolanum - Roman Milan, and its a bit of a hidden one
this tower is not instantly visible from the street, but tucked away in front of what is now a hotel, the tower of the Ticinensis Gate, standing at 9m tall & built been later c1 BC / early c1 AD
#RomanSiteSaturday & a few highlights from Mediolanum - Roman Milan 🇮🇹
Beginning with the Colonne di San Lorenzo, a Roman colonnade held together with later & medieval structures
(the bronze of Constantine is a modern copy)
For #RomanSiteSaturday let's go the Italian town of #Lucca with its Piazza dell' Anfiteatro. It's elliptical because it was built on the remains of a #Roman amphitheatre.
The c1 AD Roman House, the Roman Well, a fragment of the Northern wall & the reconstructed bath against the southern wall [which, like the pyramid on the southern wall, accuracy of reconstruction= debateable]
#RomanSiteSaturday & More from Ljubljana 🇸🇮 - Roman Emona with the Roman walls to the south of the town
Includes the rather fanciful pyramid added to the gate during the restorations in the 1930s
Looking back at our pics from summer on a rainy day
since its #RomanSiteSaturday a few from Roman Emona: now Ljubljana, Slovenia 🇸🇮
first the early christian centre, a c1 AD site converted to a church & Baptistery in c4
limited opening, but thankfully still visible from the gate
#RomanSiteSaturday with the Caves of Hercules, Toledo 🇪🇸
originally a Roman reservoir, likely built in c1 AD, later becoming a Visigothic church site followed by a mosque
For #RomanSiteSaturday the late Roman tomb of Silistra/Bulgaria. Dating around 350 AD, the tomb is richly decorated with fresoes showing not only the tomb's owner and his wife but also their servants/slaves carrying garments and other items.
For #RomanSiteSaturday a section of the Via Claudia Augusta that can still be seen in the Forggensee (Bavaria), a reservoir built in the 1950s, when the water level is low. The road began at Altinum (near Venice) and led across the Alps to Augsburg (Augusta Vindelicum) and then on to Burghöfe (Submuntorium) on the Danube.
For #RomanSiteSaturday a new discovery. A #Roman villa a Durrës, Albania, was unearthed. The villa was richly decorated with wall paintings and mosaics. Dating 1st/2nd century AD.
#RomanSiteSaturday: An amazing aerial view of Timgad/Algeria.
The Colonia Marciana Traiana Thamugadi was founded in 100 AD. Its plan, laid out with great precision, is #Roman urban planning at its best.
The wonderful view that takes in the site of the Trimontium Roman Fort complex, named after the three Eildon Hills. It was occupied from c.79- 184CE. The Roman Road that became Dere Street passes alongside the fort. #RomanSiteSaturday Trimontium is the site of one of the largest caches of #Roman military objects in #Britain, found in 117 pits. More photos from our member #Antonine on our page: https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=59082
#RomanSiteSaturday with the Roman villa at Barry 🏴
feel like you don't see Roman sites on the coast in the UK all that often
the occupants would've had a great view out across the Bristol Channel