Photo spot in Segovia
The Roman aqueduct
A two-thousand-year-old aqueduct running through the middle of the city, 28 metres high and built without mortar.
About The Roman aqueduct
Get directionsOne of the best-preserved Roman structures anywhere, and it is not in a museum or on an archaeological site — it runs straight through the middle of a working city, over a square, with cafés underneath it. A hundred and sixty-seven arches of granite, stacked dry without mortar, standing since the first century.
The scale is what photographs. Stand people at the base of the tallest section in the Plaza del Azoguejo and the arches disappear upward out of frame; step back to the stairs beside it and you get the whole run receding into the town.
Granite is grey and takes warm light beautifully at the ends of the day, and does very little at noon.
Best time to shoot
The first or last hour — grey granite needs warm, low light
Tips
Free and open at all hours. Segovia is an hour from Madrid by train and a day-trip town, so it is busiest between eleven and four. Winters here are genuinely cold.
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Other spots in Segovia
The Alcázar from the Pradera de San Marcos
The castle seen from the meadow below, standing on its rock like the prow of a ship with two rivers meeting underneath.
Plaza Mayor and the cathedral at blue hour
An arcaded square with terraces and a bandstand, closed on one side by the last great Gothic cathedral in Spain.
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