The water cycle in Reccopolis Martínez Jiménez, Javier Checa Herráiz, Joaquín Reccopolis Aqueducts Water cycle Visigothic Kingdom Late Antique urbanism Fountains Reccopolis was a new city built in Visigothic Spain in the late 6th c. CE. Even rarer than this example of an ex novo urban foundation in the post-Roman West is the fact that the city was equipped with a brand-new aqueduct. The aqueduct has, until now, only been partially studied, but in this paper we update and re-assess the original, preliminary results. We consider the city’s whole water cycle, including usage and drainage, employing new engineering calculations and GIS analyses. The results show that the aqueduct was an integral part of the city. Finally, we set our conclusions within their wider context, looking not only at the roles of aqueducts in the ideal of a city at this time, but also at urban water culture in the Late Antique West. 2023-07-18T07:43:10Z 2023-07-18T07:43:10Z 2023-06-01 journal article Martínez Jiménez, J., & Checa Herráiz, J. (2023). The water cycle in Reccopolis. Journal of Roman Archaeology, 36(1), 157-185. doi:10.1017/S104775942300020X https://hdl.handle.net/10481/83829 doi:10.1017/S104775942300020X eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ open access Atribución 4.0 Internacional Cambridge University Press