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

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Sélection de 8 canals, aqueducts, locks and gazes classified sur 10 en Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Former Givors Canal in Saint-Romain-en-Gier
Channel
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.
Aqueduct of the Gagere
Aqueduct
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.
Pont-aqueduct du Grand Bozançon in Saint-Didier-sous-Riverie
Aqueduct
69440 Saint-Didier-sous-Riverie

The Grand Bozançon aqueduct bridge, located in Saint-Didier-sous-Riverie in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, is an emblematic hydraulic structure of this region. Its exact construction period remains undetermined.
Aqueduct of the Gier section of Langonand

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).
Former Givors Canal

42800 Tartaras

The former Givors Canal, built between 1763 and 1780 in Tartaras (Loire), was a major riverway linking the Loire to the Rhône, now partially buried under the A47 motorway.
Gallo-Roman aqueduct of the Yzeron

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.
Former canal of Givors (also on communes of Saint-Romain-en-Gier (Rhône) , Tartaras and Rive-de-Gier (Loire) )

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.
Vestiges of the aqueduct tank known as the Angelic

69005 Lyon

The remains of the so-called Angélique aqueduct reservoir, located in Lyon, are a key element of the Gallo-Roman Gier aqueduct, 86 km long, feeding Lugdunum in water from the Pilat massif.