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The Aqueduct of Segovia is the city's defining monument and one of the most magnificent and best-preserved works of Roman engineering anywhere in the world. Built around the first or second century AD, it carried water some fifteen kilometres from the mountains to the city. Its most spectacular stretch, towering over the Plaza del Azoguejo, rises in two tiers of arches to a height of nearly thirty metres, built of thousands of blocks of rough granite. And here is the marvel: those huge stones are held together by nothing at all, no mortar, no cement, no clamps, balanced and locked in place purely by their own weight and the ingenious engineering of the arches. It functioned, astonishingly, right into the twentieth century. A local legend claims it was built in a single night by the Devil himself, in a bargain for a water-carrier's soul. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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- 28 metres — The aqueduct rises nearly thirty metres at its tallest point, the Plaza del Azoguejo
- 167 arches — Granite arches carry the water channel across the dip into the city
- 0 mortar — Not a drop of mortar holds the thousands of granite blocks together
📍 Calle de Fernán García, 40001, Segovia