I found the Aqueduct in Lisbon!

So many people are posting photos of what they'll look like when they're 70 . . . 

Well, this is a photo of what I -do- look like at 74. I have walked four miles (three and a half of them up-damn-hill in Lisbon to see the Aqueduct. This thing was built in 1744 and survived the Earthquake of 1755 that flat-smooth leveled the city of Lisbon. 

Lisbon was rebuilt on the master plan of the Marquis de Pombal. I have taken one photo of one monument in Lisbon; that is of Pombal. It is the largest/tallest one I have seen so far. On his plinth, the statue can see all the way across the original city to the bay of the Tagus.

That day, yesterday, as a matter of fact, I walked that entire distance, from the waterfront to that statue, and on up to the saddle of the hills where the city slopes down the other side. After I'd gotten to the top, I figured I check out the Aqueduct while I was there.

Being of that mindset (yes; I -do- carry a tape measure in my backpack) I measured the base of the aqueduct pier that abuts the stone face of the hill . . . 

The blocks on the long face are (in inches, from the cliff face):
80+108+112+59+163+157+110+45+66+65+56+85+23 = 11,229 inches . . . or right at 94 feet.
On the short face the blocks are:
58+84+84+36+25+57+58 = 33.5 feet.

Which leaves a footprint of something like 3,152 square feet. And there are 119 arches, y'all. And because I could, I figured out that this covered eight acres - of footings- over my head high plus the height of all the piers.

That's engineering.
And I need to refine my numbers.
I love it.

04/24/19 photos to follow