Aqueduct (Almuñécar)
The aqueduct at Almuñécar , a Spanish city in Andalusia , was built in the 1st century AD. The Roman aqueduct has been a protected architectural monument ( Bien de Interés Cultural ) since 1931 .
description
The aqueduct is supplied with spring water from the Río Verde , which is initially fed into a gravity tunnel . Above the village of Torrecuevas, today a district of Almuñécar, the aqueduct runs above ground and bridges a valley with 19 arches. Then a ridge between the Río Verde and the Río Seco is crossed under a tunnel 3.50 meters long. Then the aqueduct leads over three aqueducts:
- the first consists of six arches, under which there are two smaller arches,
- the second is only two-story in its middle part,
- the third is 90 meters long and has two storeys, with nine arches flanked by two smaller arcades . The height is 17.50 meters.
This is followed by a pressure line to the water reservoir in Casado, the Cuevas de Siete Palacios , which consists of a seven-aisled vaulted hall.
literature
- Klaus Grewe : The Roman aqueduct from Almuñécar (Sexi). In: Antike Welt 22, 1991, pp. 49-53.
- Walter Trillmich , Annette Nünnerich-Asmus (Ed.): Hispania Antiqua - Monuments of the Roman Age. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1993, ISBN 3-8053-1547-3 , pp. 359-360 and plate 143a.
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Coordinates: 36 ° 44 ′ 43.65 " N , 3 ° 41 ′ 14.68" W.