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This is a list of aqueducts in Rome listed in chronological order of their construction.

Ancient Rome
Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
 

Claudia Anio
Rome
* Aqua Appia
Aqua Appia

The Aqua Appia was the first Ancient Rome Roman aqueduct. It was constructed in 312 BC by Appius Claudius Caecus, the same Roman Censor who also built the important Via Appia....
    • built in 312 B.C.
    • source: springs to the east of Rome
    • length: ; underground from its source for , then on arches for to its terminus in the Forum Boarium
      Forum Boarium

      The Forum Boarium was the cattle Forum Venalium of Ancient Rome and the oldest forum that Rome possessed. It was located at a flat place near the Tiber between the Capitoline Hill, the Palatine Hill and Aventine hills....
       in Campus Martius
      Campus Martius

      The Campus Martius , was a publicly owned area of ancient Rome about 2 km? in extent. In the Middle Ages it was the most populous area of Rome....


  • Aqua Anio Vetus
    • built in 272 - 269 B.C.
    • source: Anio (Aniene
      Aniene

      The Aniene River is a 98 km river in Lazio, Italy. It flows down from the mountains at Trevi nel Lazio and goes westward past Subiaco, Italy, Vicovaro, and Tivoli, Italy into the Tiber....
      ) River near Vicovaro, east of Rome
    • length: ; underground channel of stone from its source to its terminus on the Viminal Hill
      Viminal Hill

      The Viminal Hill is the smallest of the famous seven hills of Rome of Rome. A finger-shape cusp pointing toward central-Rome between the Quirinal Hill to the northwest and the Esquiline Hill to the southeast, it is home to the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma and the Roma Termini railway station....


  • Aqua Marcia
    Aqua Marcia

    The Aqua Marcia was the longest of the 11 aqueduct that supplied the city of ancient Rome. It still functions today as one of the major water sources to the modern city of Rome....
    • built in 144 - 140 B.C.
    • source: springs near Subiaco
      Subiaco

      Subiaco may refer to:*Subiaco, Italy, site of St. Benedict's first monastery*Subiaco, Western Australia, suburb of Perth*City of Subiaco, local government municipality in Perth, Western Australia centred on the suburb of the same name...
      , east of Rome
    • length: ; underground for from its source, then on arches for to its terminus on the Capitoline Hill
      Capitoline Hill

      The Capitoline Hill , between the Roman Forum and the Campus Martius, is one of the seven hills of Rome of Rome. By the 16th century, Capitolinus had become Campidoglio in the Romanesco....
    • later piped to the baths of Caracalla
      Caracalla

      Caracalla , born Lucius Septimius Bassianus and later called Marcus Aurelius Antoninus and Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus, was the eldest son of Septimius Severus and Roman Emperor from 211 – 217....
       on the Caelian Hill
      Caelian Hill

      The Caelian Hill is one of the famous seven hills of Rome of Rome. Under reign of Tullus Hostilius, the entire population of Alba Longa was forcibly resettled on the Caelian Hill....
       by a branch called Aqua Antoniniana, then to the Aventine Hill
      Aventine Hill

      The Aventine Hill is one of the Seven hills of Rome on which ancient Rome was built. It belongs to Ripa , the twelfth rione, or ward, of Rome....
       and the Quirinal Hill
      Quirinal Hill

      The Quirinal Hill is one of the Seven Hills of Rome, at the north-east of the city center. It is the location of the official residence of the Italian Head of State, who resides in the Quirinal Palace....


  • Aqua Tepula
    Aqua Tepula

    The Aqua Tepula was built in 126 B.C. by Censors G. Servilius Caepio and L. Cassius Longinus. Its source was at the Alban hills, running only a mere 18 kilometers to Rome....
    • built in 125 B.C.
    • source: springs near Subiaco, east of Rome
    • length: ; underground for from its source, then on the same arches as those of the Aqua Marcia for to its terminus on the Aventine Hill


  • Aqua Julia
    Aqua Julia

    The Aqua Julia or Aqua Iulia is a Rome aqueduct built in 33 BC by Agrippa. It was repaired and expanded by Augustus from 11 BC–4 BC....
    • built in 33 B.C.
    • source: springs near Subiaco, east of Rome
    • length: ; underground for from its source, then on the same arches as those of the Aqua Marcia and Aqua Tepula to its terminus on the Aventine Hill


  • Aqua Virgo
    Aqua Virgo

    The Aqua Virgo was one of the 11 Roman aqueduct that supplied the city of ancient Rome. The aqueduct fell into disuse with the fall of the Roman Empire, but was fully restored nearly a whole millennium later during the Renaissance to take its current form as the Acqua Vergine....
    • built in 19 B.C.
    • source: springs near Via Collatina, east of Rome
    • length: ; underground for from its source, then on arches for to its terminus at the baths of Agrippa in Campus Martius


  • Aqua Alsietina
    Aqua Alsietina

    In Ancient Rome, the Aqua Alsietina was the earliest of the two western aqueducts, erected somewhere around 2 BC, during the reign of emperor Augustus....
    • built in 2 B.C.
    • source: Lake Alsietina, now Lake Martignano, northwest of Rome
    • length: ; underground for 13 3/4 miles from its source, then on arches for 1/4-mile to its terminus at the Naumachia
      Naumachia

      The naumachia in the Ancient Rome world referred to both the re-enactment of naval battles and the basin in which this took place....
       of Augustus in Transtiberim (Trastevere
      Trastevere

      Trastevere is Rioni of Rome XIII of Rome, on the west bank of the Tiber, south of Vatican City. Its name comes from the Latin trans Tiberim, meaning literally "beyond the Tiber"....
      )


  • Aqua Claudia
    Aqua Claudia

    Aqua Claudia was an aqueduct which like the Anio Novus was begun by Caligula in 38 A.D. and completed by Claudius in 52#Notes. Its main springs, the Caeruleus and Curtius, were situated 300 paces to the left of the thirty-eighth milestone of the Via Sublacensis....
    • built in A.D. 52
    • source: springs in Subiaco, east of Rome
    • length: ; underground for from its source, then on arches for to its terminus on the Caelian Hill
    • later piped to the imperial palaces from the mid-first century on the Palatine Hill
      Palatine Hill

      The Palatine Hill is the centermost of the Seven Hills of Rome and is one of the most ancient parts of the city. It stands 40 metres above the Roman Forum, looking down upon it on one side, and upon the Circus Maximus on the other....


  • Aqua Anio Novus
    Anio Novus

    Anio Novus is an aqueduct, which, like the Aqua Claudia, was begun by Caligula in 38#Notes AD and completed in 52 AD by Claudius, who dedicated them both on August 1....
    • built in A.D. 52
    • source: Anio (Aniene) River, east of Rome
    • length: ; underground for from its source, then on arches for , entering Rome at Porta Maggiore
      Porta Maggiore

      The Porta Maggiore , or Porta Prenestina, is one of the eastern gates in the ancient but well-preserved 3rd century Aurelian Walls of Rome.Through the gate ran two ancient roads: the Via Praenestina and the Via Labicana....
      , atop the channel of Aqua Claudia to its terminus on the Caelian Hill


  • Aqua Trajana
    • built in A.D. 109
    • source: springs to the north of Lake Bracciano
      Lake Bracciano

      Lake Bracciano is a lake of volcanic origin in the Italian region of Lazio, northwest of Rome. With a surface of 56.76 km? it is the second largest lake in the region and one of the major lakes of Italy....
      , northwest of Rome
    • length: ; underground for from its source, then on arches for to its terminus on the Janiculum Hill


  • Aqua Alexandrina
    • built in A.D. 226
    • source: the Pantano springs near Via Prenestina, east of Rome
    • length: ; underground for from its source, then on arches for to its terminus at the baths of Alexander Severus
      Alexander Severus

      Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander, commonly called Alexander Severus, was the last Roman Emperors of the Severan dynasty, having succeeded, as heir apparent, his despised cousin, the eighteen year old Elagabalus who had been murdered along with his mother by his own guards—and as a mark of contempt, had their remains cast into...
       in Campus Martius


Modern Rome
Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
 

  • Acqua Vergine Antica
    Acqua Vergine

    Acqua Vergine is one of the several Aqueducts in Rome that serve the city of Rome, in Italy, with pure drinking-water. The name derives from the name of its predecessor, Aqua Virgo, which was constructed by Marcus Agrippa in 19 BC, terminating at its castellum at the Baths of Agrippa, and, through a network of conduits, serving the vicin...
    • built in 1453
    • source: springs in Salone, east of Rome
    • length: ; underground from its source to its terminus at the fountain of Trevi on the Quirinal Hill


  • Acqua Felice
    Acqua Felice

    The Acqua Felice is one of the List of Roman aqueducts by date, completed in 1586 by Pope Sixtus V, whose birth name, which he never fully abandoned, was Felice Peretti....
    • built in 1586
    • source: springs at Pantano Borghese, off Via Casilina
    • length: ; underground for from its source, in the channel of Aqua Alexandrina, then alternating on the arches of the Aqua Claudia and the Aqua Marcia for to its terminus at the fountain of Moses on the Quirinal Hill


  • Acqua Paola
    • built in 1611
    • source: Lake Bracciano, northwest of Rome
    • length: ; underground for from its source, in the channel of Aqua Trajana, then on arches for to its terminus at the fountain of Paul V on the Janiculum Hill,
    • later piped to Vatican Hill


  • Acqua Pia Antica Marcia
    Acqua Pia Antica Marcia

    The Acqua Pia Antica Marcia or Aqua Pia was an aqueduct in Rome. It was first built as a restoration of the classical Aqua Marcia by Luigi Canina, commissioned by Pope Pius IX....
    • built in 1870
    • source: springs near Subiaco, east of Rome
    • length: ; underground for in the channel of Aqua Marcia, then on arches for to its terminus at the fountain of the Naiads on the Viminal Hill


  • Acqua Vergine Nuova
    Acqua Vergine

    Acqua Vergine is one of the several Aqueducts in Rome that serve the city of Rome, in Italy, with pure drinking-water. The name derives from the name of its predecessor, Aqua Virgo, which was constructed by Marcus Agrippa in 19 BC, terminating at its castellum at the Baths of Agrippa, and, through a network of conduits, serving the vicin...
    • built in 1937
    • source: springs in Salone, east of Rome
    • length: ; underground from its source to its terminus at the fountains in Piazza del Popolo and the fountains on the western slope of the Pincio, overlooking Piazza del Popolo


  • Acqua Peschiera
    • built in 1949
    • source: springs in Sorgenti, northeast of Rome
    • length: ; underground from its source, splitting into two branches:
      • Peschiera Sinistra, approaching Rome from the east
      • Peschiera Destra, taking a westward route, crossing the Tiber River at Poggio Mireto Scalo, about thirty miles north of Rome to its terminus at the fountain of Piazzale degli Eroi, just north of Vatican Hill


See also

  • Roman aqueduct
    Roman aqueduct

    Romans constructed numerous aqueducts to supply water to cities and industrial sites. These aqueducts were amongst the greatest engineering feats of the ancient world, and set a standard not equaled for over a thousand years after the fall of Rome....
  • Frontinus


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