Diocletianus Aqueduct

The Diocletian Aqueduct is an historic Roman aqueduct near Split, Croatia constructed throughout the Roman Empire to deliver water to the Palace of Emperor Diocletian. The Diocletian Aqueduct became built among the cease of third and beginning of the 4th century AD at the identical time because the palace. The aqueduct took water from the Jadro River, nine kilometres northeast from the Diocletian's Palace and taken water to the Palace over a peak distinction of thirteen m. Another aqueduct took water from the same source to Salona. The high-quality-preserved a part of aqueduct near Dujmovaca has a maximum peak of 16.5 m and a length of 180 m.

The Diocletian aqueduct became destroyed inside the invasion of Goths inside the middle of 6th century and did now not paintings for 13 centuries after that. The first reconstruction of the aqueduct befell all through the reign of the Austro-Hungarian Empire 1877 to 1880. The aqueduct become abandoned from 1932 while the cutting-edge water station Kopilica changed into built. The aqueduct is presently being restored.