Channels, aqueducts, locks, gazes classified in the Rhône-Alpes

69700 Givors

The old Givors Canal, built between 1763 and 1839, connected Givors to Rive-de-Gier via 29 locks and 5 water bridges. This 18th-century industrial monument, now partially destroyed, illustrates the rhônalpine river engineering for the transport of coal and goods.

Aqueduc gallo-romain
69130 Tassin-la-Demi-Lune

The Brévenne Waterway, built under the Roman Empire, is an ancient 70 km building feeding Lugdunum (Lyon) from the Lyon mountains. His remains, including the siphon of the Mussues, are protected in Tassin-la-Demi-Lune.

Canal
42800 Rive-de-Gier

The Givors Canal in Rive-de-Gier, built between 1763 and 1780, was a major 20 km hydraulic structure linking the Loire to the Rhône, located in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, now partially destroyed by the A47 motorway.

69290 Craponne

The Gallo-Roman lake of the Yzeron, located in Craponne (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes), is an ancient ramified work of the 1st century BC, feeding Lugdunum in water from the basin of the Yzeron. Its remains, like the turrets, bear witness to complex hydraulic engineering.

Aqueduc
69630 Chaponost

The Gagere's lake, a Gallo-Roman vestige located in Chaponost near Lyon, bears witness to an ancient hydraulic system using a siphon to cross a valley.

Canal
69700 Saint-Romain-en-Gier

The former Givors Canal, built between 1763 and 1780 in Saint-Romain-en-Gier (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes), was a 20 km river track linking the Loire to the Rhône, equipped with 42 locks and 5 water bridges before its burial in 1970.

69450 Saint-Romain-au-Mont-d'Or

The aqueduct tanks of Vallon d'Arche, Gallo-Roman remains in Saint-Romain-au-Mont-d'Or (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes), were part of the hydraulic system supplying Lugdunum (Ancient Lyon).

42400 Saint-Chamond

The Gier Watershed, a section of Langonand, is a Gallo-Roman vestige of the 1st–IInd century located in Saint-Chamond (Loire), part of the longest ancient aqueduct feeding Lugdunum (Lyon).