At the confluence of the rivers and Clamores Eresma at the foot of the Sierra de Guadarrama, Segovia is one of the Spanish cities that best preserve the spectacular legacy the Romans left in it.
The biggest tourist attraction in Segovia is the Roman aqueduct built in to move water from the Rio Hollin, though legend says something quite different. According to this a young water carrier, tired of dragging the jar over the steep and narrow streets of the city, agreed to a trade with the devil. The latter could avail of the soul of the girl if, before the cock crowed, the water came up to the door of his house. The Devil piecework, be built in less than 24 hours and did not get a stone.
Legends aside, the aqueduct is a majestic piece of Roman engineering, built with granite blocks together without any mortar between them and placed a bone. Born in The Hollin, a place next to La Granja, from which leads the water to the capital during a stretch of 15 kilometers, of which about 728 meters are exposed and the other underground. It is composed of 163 arches and reaches its maximum height in the Plaza of Quicksilver
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