The Proserpina Dam is a Roman gravity dam in Mérida, Extremadura, Spain, dating to the 1st or 2nd century AD. It was built as part of the infrastructure which supplied the city of Emerita Augusta with water.
After the fall of the Roman Empire, the Milagros aqueduct leading to the city fell into decay, but the earth dam with retaining wall is still in use.[1]
Conservation
It is also part of the Archaeological Ensemble of Mérida, an UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1993.[2]
See also
List of Roman dams and reservoirs
Roman architecture
Roman engineering
List of Bien de Interés Cultural in the Province of Badajoz
Arenillas Parra, Miguel; Díaz-Guerra Jaén, Carmen; Cortés Gimeno, Rafael (2002), La presa romana de Proserpina, archived from the original on 19 August 2003, retrieved 24 October 2009
Hodge, A. Trevor (1992), Roman Aqueducts & Water Supply, London: Duckworth, pp.87–89, ISBN0-7156-2194-7
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