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Alcantarilla was present on the morning of last Friday in Madrid, at FITUR 2019, at the Costa Cálida stand, which the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia has in this international tourism fair.

Alcantarilla was present at twelve o'clock in the morning, as the mayor of Alcantarilla, Joaquín Buendía, presented in this space the greatness of our city in terms of tourism and history, making known with images the multiple possibilities to find out and of bewitching for a moment with "Sewer, where the garden is born" and the possibilities of contemplating large historical water infrastructures that water gave us and today to be able to count on those 2,500 years of history at hand.

In this third time we are present in this great fair, thanks to the invitation of the regional government, through the Ministry of Tourism and Culture, as well as the Tourism Institute, has been made known, inform and disseminate, our history in the nucleus of our Noria, with the distribution of wealth for the thousands of huertanos who favored with their use the power to irrigate the fertile lands of the traditional vegetable garden, with the passage of one of the two largest ditches of Barreras or Alquibla, the pass of the Dava or the birth of El Turbedal or the one generated by the Sewer Wheel itself with the contribution of its 72 buckets to raise water through the aqueduct, currently in the process of rehabilitation, discovering them in their entirety and being a reference in the park of 25,000 square meters that is under construction.

The mayor of Alcantarilla, Joaquín Buendía, was surrounded by the Minister of Tourism and Culture, Miriam Guardiola and accompanied by the presidents of the Board of Fraternities and Brotherhoods Pasionarias, José Juan Sánchez del Cerro and the Federation of Peñas Festeras y Culturales de Alcantarilla , Juan Sornichero Martínez, as well as several members of these two great festivities of our city such as Holy Week and the Witch Festival, organized by the supporters and following the process to comply with the file to be declared of national tourist interest.

In his speech he toured the history, of all these major water infrastructures, as well as both celebrations.

Regarding the presentation of "SEWER: WHERE THE ORCHARD IS BORN", he indicated that our city is strategically located at a crossroads next to the main communication routes, showing the FITUR International Fair of Tourism, an interesting legacy, dating back to the seventh century BC, at which time Iberian settlers settled in it taking advantage of a prominent elevation of the land next to the River Segura now attracted, no doubt, by the abundance of resources that the area offered .

The latest findings seem to testify to the existence of some initial Roman irrigation by means of some water intakes based on tunnels, which were carried out in the area of ​​the current Contraparada, with the Arabs being the ones that later completed the network of irrigation ditches throughout the vega .

Here we find the Cabezo de la Rueda or "Agua Salá";

the Aqueduct of the Arches in the Rambla de las Zorreras;

the Bridge of the Pilas of the XI century, our Museum of the Huerta, between the ditches of Barreras and El Turbedal, with La Dava crossing next to the Segura, the Noria and its Aqueduct of the XIII century.

Thus, Sewer gathers in its territory the beginnings of the garden of Murcia, and in it we find the basic elements of this irrigation: ditches, aqueducts, ferris wheels and steels.

Being in FITUR, it moves that only seven kilometers from the capital, Sewer with a large population center, exceeding 42,000 inhabitants, the fifth most inhabited municipality of our Region, will find a perfect space to visit, where trade and industry are its main sources of wealth, being surrounded by our Murcian garden, which gives us a good quality of life.

Alcantarilla and its inhabitants have managed with their effort and work to be a prosperous and dynamic city.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Alcantarilla