Zaghouan

  • Zaghouan is a town in Tunisia, 37 miles (60km) south of Tunis. It is famed for its Roman Aqueduct.
  • It is thought to have been the Roman city of Zica located in the Province of Africa Proconsularis.

Roman Sites

  • The Zaghouan Aqueduct
    • This is one of the longest known Aqueducts in the Roman Empire at 82 miles (132km) long.
    • It was completed in time for the opening in 162 CE of the Baths of Antonius in Carthage.
    • The water for Carthage was taken from the source at Djebel Zaghouan where a Roman Temple and Fountain was built (Temple des Eaux) over the Source, and from where the Zaghouan Roman Aqueduct took the water to Carthage.
    • The majority of the channel was restored in 1859 and supplies Tunis with water today.

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