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COLLEONI AQUEDUCT
In the Colleoni property, the ruins of the aqueduct that supplied the Villa's waterworks are still visible.
Villa Adriana had a general slope from south to north, so it is clear that the water supply came from the south and from above.
An engraving by Penna show ths aqueduct in a better state of preservation in the first decades of the nineteenth century. Surely the aqueduct was linked to one of the large public aqueducts that took water from the Aniene to Tivoli to take it to Rome.
The Accademia aqueduct in a nineteenth-century engraving by Penna
which documents a much better state of conservation.