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Pegões Aqueduct
(Aqueduto dos Pegoes), is
situated two kilometres outside the
central Portugal
town of Tomar.
The aqueduct
was constructed between 1593 and 1613 by order of King Filipe I of
Portugal.
The monumental structure, which has 180
arches, stretches over six kilometres. Filipe Terzi began the work and
Pedro Fernandes Torres completed it.
Where the Pegões valley drops down the
aqueduct forms two rows of arches, the lower one supporting the
continuous upper row.
The aqueduct was constructed to feed the
Convent do Cristo in
Tomar with water and amazingly after all these
centuries water still flows along it's channel.
As the aqueduct nears the
Convent do Cristo it is
more decorative with four foot high stone carved columns every
couple of metres. |
