page_title: List of Roman aqueducts by date
section_title: Ancient Rome
hierarchical_section_title: List of Roman aqueducts by date / Ancient Rome
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Plan de Rome avec les 11 aqueducs en rouge
context_page_description: This is a list of aqueducts in the city of Rome listed in chronological order of their construction.
context_section_description: Aqua Appia
  built in 312 BCE
  source: springs 10 miles (16 km) to the east of Rome
  length: 10 miles (16 km); underground from its source for 7 miles (11 km), then on arches for 3 miles (4.8 km) to its terminus in the Forum Boarium in Campus Martius
  Aqua Anio Vetus
  built in 272–269 BCE
  source: Anio (Aniene) River near Vicovaro, east of Rome
  length: 40 miles (64 km); underground channel of stone from its source to its terminus on the Viminal Hill
  Aqua Marcia
  built in 144–140 BCE
  source: springs near Subiaco, east of Rome
  length: 56 miles (90 km); underground for 50 miles (80 km) from its source, then on arches for 6 miles (9.7 km) to its terminus on the Capitoline Hill
  later piped to the fantastic baths of Caracalla on the Caelian Hill by a branch called Aqua Antoniniana, then to the Aventine Hill and the Quirinal Hill
  Aqua Tepula
  built in 125 BCE
  source: springs near Subiaco, east of Rome
  length: 11 miles (18 km); underground for 5 miles (8.0 km) from its source, then on the same arches as those of the Aqua Marcia for 6 miles (9.7 km) to its terminus on the Aventine Hill
  Aqua Julia
  built in 33 BCE
  source: springs near Subiaco, east of Rome
  length: 14 miles (23 km); underground for 7 miles (11 km) from its source, then on the same arches as those of the Aqua Marcia and Aqua Tepula to its terminus on the Aventine Hill
  Aqua Virgo
  built in 19 BCE
  source: springs near Via Collatina, east of Rome
  length: 14 miles (23 km); underground for 7 miles (11 km) from its source, then on arches for 7 miles (11 km) to its terminus at the baths of Agrippa in Campus Martius
  Aqua Alsietina
  built in 2 BCE
  source: Lake Alsietina, now Lake Martignano, northwest of Rome
  length: 14 miles (23 km); underground for 13​³⁄₄ miles from its source, then on arches for 1/4-mile to its terminus at the Naumachia of Augustus in Transtiberim (Trastevere)
  Aqua Claudia
  built in AD 52
  source: springs in Subiaco, east of Rome
  length: 43 miles (69 km); underground for 34 miles (55 km) from its source, then on arches for 9 miles (14 km) to its terminus on the Caelian Hill
  later piped to the imperial palaces from the mid-first century on the Palatine Hill
  Aqua Anio Novus
  built in AD 52
  source: Anio (Aniene) River, east of Rome
  length: 54 miles (87 km); underground for 46 miles (74 km) from its source, then on arches for 8 miles (13 km), entering Rome at Porta Maggiore, atop the channel of Aqua Claudia to its terminus on the Caelian Hill
  Aqua Traiana
  built in AD 109
  source: springs to the north of Lake Bracciano, northwest of Rome
  length: 35 miles (56 km); underground for 29 miles (47 km) from its source, then on arches for 6 miles (9.7 km) to its terminus on the Janiculum Hill
  Aqua Alexandrina
  built in AD 226
  source: the Pantano springs near Via Prenestina, east of Rome
  length: 14 miles (23 km); underground for 4 miles (6.4 km) from its source, then on arches for 10 miles (16 km) to its terminus at the baths of Alexander Severus in Campus Martius
caption: The eleven ancient aqueducts of Rome
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