Claudia aqueduct

The Aqueduct Claudia or Aqueduc of Claude ( Aqua Claudia ) was started with Caligula in 38 a. J. - C. like the Aqueduc Anio Novus, and finished in 52 a. J. - C. under Claude, which devoted it on August 1st. The cost of both aqueducts bordered the 350.000.000 sesterces.

After having been in service during ten years only, the provisioning was stopped during nine years, until Vespasien reconstitutes it in 71 a. J. - C., and ten years later, Titus again had to repair it.

Underground on its greater part, it skirted then the Latin Voie on nearly 10 km, then emerged from the ground close to Rome. The Aqueduc borrowed arches on the last 13 kilometers. Part of the Aqueduc Anio Novus was built on the Aqueduc Claudia and all two passed by the monumental arc which Major Porte is the before separating, where they crossed the Aqueduc Marcia bearing that of Tepula. This Aqueduc was very high because between the height of the hill of which it came at the entry from Rome and its arrival close to the Palatin, altitude had strongly dropped.

It provided a water of good quality to the Caelius, with the Palatin, the Aventin and the area Transtibérine and its exceptional height allowed that it also supplies the Quirinal, the Viminal and the Esquilin