
The Kamares arched aqueduct, 270m long and 25m in height (at its highest point), was once the town’s lifeline and is now its principal landmark, where a busy road passes, under its arches.
It was one of the major civic infrastructure works of the Ottomans and is believed to have been built on a Roman aqueduct on the same spot. It supplied the city’s water (public fountains, public buildings, private houses and etc.) into the early decades of the 20th century from over 6 km to the walled city of Kavala.