Aqua Traiana

The Aqua Traiana is an ancient Roman aqueduct ( aqueduct ) to supply the city of Rome. In addition to the existing nine aqueducts providing them the right bank of the Tiber ( Trastevere today ) with water.

History

The Aqua Traiana was built under the reign of Emperor Trajan in 109 AD.

The water line was partially offset by Witichis, King of the Ostrogoths in the siege of Rome in 537 AD destroyed, but a few years later, restored by the generals Belisarius under the rule of the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I..

New interventions took place during the time of Pope Honorius I place in the 7th century. The passage of the Lombards and the Saracens learned the Aqua Traiana further injury and therefore was repaired between the 8th and 9th centuries again.

Acqua Paola

Pope Paul V had in 1605 re-build a new water line along the ancient channel guide. This reconstruction is known under the name Aqua Paola. The Pope is expected to be at that time been of the opinion, to have restored the Aqua Alsietina from the time of Emperor Augustus, as a plaque on one of the Acqua Paola aqueduct and at the Fontana Paola, the end of the water line proves.

Water management

The source version was in the Sabatini Mountains in the north of Lacus Sabatinus (now known as the Lake Bracciano ), about 50 km north-west from the city center of Rome. The water pipe had a length of 59.2 km and led on the Janiculum Pass and from there almost entirely underground on the right bank of the Tiber. They ran along the Via Claudia and Via Triumphalis, then on a sheet structure along the Via Aurelia and ended up on the Janiculum, near the later Porta Aurelia (now Porta San Pancrazio ). From this hill from the water could be distributed and even served as a drive for mill wheels.

Others

The Aqua Traiana was taken in 1992 by the American Society of Civil Engineers in the List of International Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks.