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

Retrouvez les 10 canals, aqueducts, locks and gazes classified in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region recensés par Musée du Patrimoine de France.
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Sélection de 8 canals, aqueducts, locks and gazes classified sur 10 en Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Aqueduct du Gier in Mornant
Aqueduct
69440 Mornant

The Gier in Mornant, Gallo-Roman vestige of the 2nd century, is a section of the longest ancient aqueduct of Lyon (85 km), classified as Historical Monument. Located in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, it illustrates Roman engineering for water supply to Lugdunum.
Couzon Tunnel in Rive-de-Gier
Aqueduct
42800 Rive-de-Gier

The Couzon tunnel in Rive-de-Gier, the first French railway tunnel of the 2nd quarter of the 19th century, extends 900 metres in the Loire, in 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.