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Pont du Gard

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Original – Pont du Gard, in Vers-Pont-du-Gard, Gard department, South France. The Pont du Gard is the most famous part of the roman aqueduct which carried water from Uzès to Nîmes until roughly the 9th century when maintenance was abandoned. The monument is 49m high and now 275m long (it was 360m when intact) at its top. It's the highest roman aqueduct, but also one of the best preserved (with the aqueduct of Segovia). The Pont du Gard is a UNESCO world heritage site since 1985.

Reason

Surprisingly, this very popular monument didn't have any high quality and complete shot of it on the article (en and french) until I added this picture. This high resolution shot probably shows as much as possible of it and its context and is from a pleasant point of view. Lighting is also fortunate : it's taken at golden hour, but no so late as to have the hill casting a shadow on the bridge. Note that this side of the bridge doesn't feature the pedestrian bridge which was added later, and which kind of ruins the original design.

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Benh

• Support as nominator – Blieusong (talk) 11:19, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
• Support --Alchemist-hp (talk) 06:54, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
• Support - Very well done. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 09:48, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
• Support. High quality picture. --Carioca (talk) 19:46, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
• Support. Jee 07:26, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
• Support - very nice. Peripitus (Talk) 09:10, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
• Support - SagaciousPhil - Chat 05:09, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
• Support - excellent picture. Coat of Many Colours (talk) 02:06, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

Promoted File:Pont du Gard BLS.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 12:00, 29 June 2014 (UTC)