Duration: 3 days.

Structure: 1 theory lecture (2 hours per lecture) plus 2 full days.

Language of Teaching: Italian, English, Spanish.

Course description: The course will focus on the aqueduct system of ancient Rome, made up of 11 aqueducts built in the period between the republican and imperial periods. Students will learn about the techniques and main characteristics used to build the aqueducts in lectures and visits to archaeological sites in Rome and nearby. The names of the sites to be visited will be communicated during the lectures as they can change due to the bureaucratic difficulties to access most archaeological sites in Rome.

Output: Certificate of attendance.

Cost of the course: 300,00 € (minimum 6 participants).

Date of start: Weekly from the 1st of July.

Objectives: To analyse the water supply system of ancient Rome, with a stress on the different technologies used, with field trips to well-known sites in and outside Rome.

Programme: A lecture and then a visit to the Parco degli acquedotti di Gallicano to admire the bridges and the galleries part of the Marcio and Anio Vetus  aqueducts. Another field trip will be organised to Vicovaro, to admire the Marci and Claudio aqueducts in the suggestive scenario of the S.Cosimato Benedectine monastery.

The cost will include the transport to Vicovaro and lunch at the monastery.