M-01 - LISBON AQUEDUCT AND XVIII CENTURY WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM
Main organizer: Albino Medeiros (AIH-GP)
Co-organizer: Margarida Ruas (EPAL)
This magnificent aqueduct, built between 1732 and 1834, also served as a pedestrian walkway until closed in the nineteenth century following a series of crimes committed on its lofty structure. With 14 km of extension since the main spring and diverse subsidiary aqueducts, with a 58 total of km. The aqueduct runs from Belas, north of Lisbon, via 35 arches across the Alcântara valley to the Mãe d’Água "Water Mother" reservoir (5500 cubic meters), near the Largo do Rato in western Lisbon.
The Aqueduct possess, in its more monumental part, a set of 35 arches, authorship of Custódio Vieira, on the Valley of Alcântara, where to be found the world’s highest stone arch, with 65 meters of height and 32 meters opening. |
