Roman Aqueduct used 1000 years ago to bring water to Caesarea an ancient city in Israel
I wish you all a start to the week as you wish.
And for me this beginning of the week brings with it a long awaited vacation so I am taking advantage of the last hours when I still have free time before my departure to share with you an amazing place, a place with an incredible history, a special architecture, yes today I will share with you the Roman Apeduct in Caesarea National Park, Israel.
As I have already written, travelling in Israel we have generally done by train, tram or bus depending on the area where we are going but believe me there are solutions for everything, alternatives to taxis which are more expensive.
In a future post I will also write about the sensational ancient city of Caesarea, but today I will stop at this amazing construction.
The aqueduct was built in order to bring quite a lot of water to the city, where it was very difficult to bring water in other ways.
Its location is somewhere midway between Haifa and Tel Aviv, a beautiful place on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, well worth a visit.
Right in front of this amazing architectural masterpiece is a very large parking lot where I saw many coaches parked, a sign that many tourists came here in organized groups but also many tourists coming here with rented cars, honestly I saw very few locals.
Here is the perfect place to combine a history lesson with a perfect beach day, but we enjoyed the history lesson and just a seaside photo shoot.
We came from the old ancient city of Caesarea on the seaside, an idyllic route, we saw many tourists running and cycling, a perfect atmosphere.
Even though it was February when we visited this place outside it was a beautiful day with lots of sunshine, all around us were a myriad of colors nature was acting up, the sea seemed to be talking to us.
Let's get a little closer to the Roman Aqueduct.
From what I've eavesdropped it looks like the length of this aqueduct is about 20 kilometers, 10 kilometers being built as you've seen in my photos, and the other part apparently being tunneled through rock to the base of Mount Carmel.
Yes, from this distance drinking water was brought to the ancient city, an ingenious construction at least in my conception, water thanks to that tunnel dug in the rock had a very high flow.
One part of the Apeduct was built in the period of Herod the Great and the other part in another period, which can be seen perfectly from the shape of the materials used, but even so it achieved the purpose for which it was built.
Even though many years have passed over this aqueduct a part of it has remained intact and today we can enjoy the creativity, ingenuity and why not have something to learn from the culture of those times.
The sea spell attracted us like a magnet, as if we didn't want to leave.
In conclusion I can say that I had a day full of history, beach and public transport, I recommend this place really worth a visit.
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P.S. The attached pictures you have just seen are taken by me with my mobile phone(and the combined picture is also made with the phone), and the text is also designed by me.
