Beukenberg Roman Aqueduct Walk

Here you also have a view of the castle...

The landscape significance of the Beukenberg goes back to Roman Tongeren at the end of the first century. The city was located on a strategic hill site along the Bavai-Cologne highway and the Jeker. To provide it with running water, the Romans built an ingenious aqueduct. Between the natural sources of the Mombeek in Widooie (+105 metres) and the first Roman ramparts (+100 metres), an artificial ridge was constructed, of which the Beukenberg forms a part. Pure water was carried to Tongeren in a wooden drainage channel over that earthen wall of about 4 kilometers long. Of the aqueduct, the route between Sint-Truidersteenweg and Legioenenlaan is the best preserved and clearly visible in the relief. In the pronounced arable farming area south of the Sint-Truiden - Tongeren road, the profile fades fairly quickly and finally disappears completely from the microrelief. Here the natural fall was sufficient to allow the water to flow into the city and the wooden drainage channel was simply on the ground level.inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be/erfgoedobjecten/135350

A wooden platform has been constructed over the sometimes swampy footpath that extends between the walls of the castle of Betho and the remains of the Roman aqueduct.