🏛️ Pont-aqueduc dit le Pont de Virieux (vestiges) à Chabanière
Roman aqueduct remains in the Rhône valley
📋 Fast Facts
- 1st-century AD Roman aqueduct supplying Lugdunum (Lyon)
- Part of an 80-kilometre water transport system from the Gier River
- Located in Chabanière, Rhône department, France
- Classified as a Monument Historique by French Ministry of Culture
The Pont-aqueduc du Gier, commonly known as the Pont de Virieux, is a significant Roman engineering work dating to the 1st century AD. The aqueduct was constructed to transport water across the substantial distance from the Gier River near Saint-Chamond to the Roman city of Lugdunum, present-day Lyon. The vestiges preserved at Chabanière represent one of the most intact surviving sections of this vast hydraulic network that served the region for centuries ...