A surviving stretch of the nineteenth-century aqueduct that once carried fresh water from the springs at Għar Ilma in Kerċem to the reservoirs at Victoria runs above the road on a line of slender pointed arches. Built between 1839 and 1843 under the British governor Sir Henry Bouverie, it solved a problem that had plagued Gozo since Roman times — keeping the capital supplied with water during the long dry summers.
Most of the aqueduct was demolished in the twentieth century when modern pipes took over, but a couple of well-preserved sections survive, the longest in Kerċem and another short run near Victoria. It is a quiet, easy-to-miss piece of industrial heritage on an island better known for prehistory.