Travel
28 Feb 2008
21 Jun 2008
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This was one of my favorite pictures of the trip. It was surreal to enter this town square in Segovia and to stumble upon this massive, visually stunning, amazing feat of Roman Empire engineering - running right through the heart of town.
I read later that the aqueduct was still in use at the end of the 19th century - so it is possible that my grandparents may have visited here and stood under it while it was still supplying water to the town just as it did 2000 years ago. Wow!
I was curious about this statue - visible in a niche of one of the upper columns. It turns out that it originally contained an inscription memorializing the completion of construction at the end of the first century AD. But as seen in Spain and elsewhere, priceless antiquities were often replaced with religious artifacts.
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