Fifty thousand tons of limestone blocks hold themselves together without mortar. The Pont du Gard spans the Gardon River with three tiers of arches, the tallest reaching nearly fifty metres. It carried water from a spring in Uzès to the city of Nîmes, a distance of fifty kilometres with a gradient of just thirty-four centimetres […]
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Updated: August 10, 2020 | By Claire | More Vasco da Gama is very popular bridge in the world since it is the longest bridge in Europe. The construction works started in 1995 and have been completed in 1998. The beauty of the bridge is that it has six road lanes, with a speed limit […]