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The Acueducto de los Milagros ((英語:Miraculous Aqueduct)) is a ruined Roman aqueduct bridge, part of the aqueduct built to supply water to the Roman colony of ''Emerita Augusta'', today Mérida, Spain. Only a relatively small stretch of the aqueduct still stands, consisting of 38 arched pillars standing high along a course of some . It is constructed from ''opus mixtum'' - granite ashlar blocks interspersed with red brick - utilising a double arcade arrangement. The structure originally brought water to the city from a reservoir called the ''Lago de Proserpina'', fed by a stream called Las Pardillas, around to the north-west of Mérida.〔Roger Collins. ''Spain: An Oxford Archaeological Guide'', p. 195, 199. Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-19-285300-7〕 It is thought to have been constructed during the 1st century AD, with a second phase of building (or renovations) around 300 AD. In later centuries, the inhabitants of Mérida dubbed it the "Miraculous Aqueduct" for the awe that it evoked.〔"Study for the determination of the pathologies in the constituent materials of the Milagros Aqueduct (Mérida)", J.M. Ávila Macías, M.I. Mota López, I. Rodríguez Maribona, in ''Heritage, Weathering and Conservation: Proceedings of the International Heritage, Weathering and Conservation Conference (HWC-2006), 21-24 June 2006'', ed. Alvarez De Buergo. Taylor & Francis, 2006. ISBN 0-415-41272-2〕 The aqueduct was one of three built at Mérida, the other two being the long Aqua Augusta, fed by the Cornalvo reservoir, and San Lázaro, fed by underground channels.〔Leonard A. Curchin. ''Roman Spain: Conquest and Assimilation'', p. 106. Routledge, 1991. ISBN 0-415-02365-3〕 The aqueduct is preserved as part of the Archaeological Ensemble of Mérida, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In the immediate vicinity a small Roman bridge called Puente de Albarregas runs parallel to the arcades. == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Acueducto de los Milagros」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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