The water supply: we take it for granted now. But how could the Romans provide each citizen with 70 gallons of water per day ? From the natural source to the tap: amazing solutions of hydraulics engineering.

4 hours - by private car & driver

“The greatness of the Roman Empire is admirably revealed by the aqueducts…” Starting from 312 b.C. eleven main aqueducts and eight minor branches supplied an incredible amount of water to few private wealthy houses, 11 public bath houses, 900 pools, 1300 fountains, 3 artificial lakes, 2 naumachie (basins used to perform naval battles). Broken by the Barbarians when besieging the city in the VI century AD, they quickly decayed and were out of order for ten centuries until the Popes rearranged some of them. Their ruins are still featuring like gigantic skeletons in the South Eastern outskirts of Rome and can be traced inside the city at Porta Maggiore, its neighbourhood and the undergrounds nearby the Trevi Fountain.