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In the morning of today the president of the Hydrographic Confederation of Segura, Miguel Angel Ródenas and Mayor of Alcantarilla, Joaquín Buendía, have visited the cleaning actions that the Confederation has initiated cleaning on the Rambla de las Zorreras, next to the site of the Agua Salá of our municipality and achieve with it the discovery and leave perfectly in sight the Aqueduct of the Arches, in the rambla of Las Zorreras (BIC since April 2011) and in which the Board of Landowners has been carrying out important works Of restoration in the same.

Also present were the councilors of Culture, María Luisa Martínez and Works and Services, Juan Antonio Mata, as well as one of the members of the sewage association Legado, Diego Rosique.

The president of the Segura Hydrographic Confederation, Miguel Ángel Ródenas, has stated that the "Confederation has come to the call of Alcantarilla Mayor, Joaquín Buendía, to know that the City Council was running through the Junta de Hacendados the restoration of This beautiful aqueduct, with the ditches of the Dava, Alquibla and Turbedal and favor the view of all this place that is very visited and give it value, our action consists in the cleaning and cutting of canes that prevented its vision. , Not only by the aqueduct, but by all the area around the river Segura and this will be the work that from now on.

For Mayor Alcantarilla, Joaquín Buendía, "with this performance is discovering the arch of the aqueduct of the Rambla de las Zorreras and discovering, because surely, many of the people that walk along this road by the river, which is a Place of habitual passage of people doing sports or walking, they would never have seen that fabulous aqueduct of around century XII, that supports to these three acequias the Alquibla, Dava and Turbedal, and taking advantage of the action of the Board of Planters, that Thanks also to the collaboration of the Ministry of Culture, has started the recovery of a part of the wall that was collapsing and in which the Board of Landowners has invested almost 40,000 euros, is when we asked the Hydrographic Confederation, Its president Miguel Angel Rodenas, that could make visible that fabulous aqueduct that already can be seen and that will be able to be seen better when the works are finished, of this relic of Alc

Antarilla, well of Cultural Interest, that is part of this enclave around the Museum of the Orchard, the place of Water Salá, the hermitage of the Virgin of Health and that network of irrigation channels that is unique in all the Region and that has Its point of connection here in Alcantarilla, being a reason of joy for our municipality that we can recover and rediscover this monument that I think is going to be of great interest to visit from now on.

The "Acueducto Los Arcos" on the ravine of Las Zorreras, is located in our municipality, four hundred meters from the Museum of the Orchard and Noria de Alcantarilla, between the place of Water Salá and the Way of the Arches, the road that unites us With the Murcian hamlet of Javalí Nuevo, being already included in one of the modifications of the General Plan of Urban Planning, relative to the "Environment of protection historical-artistic and landscape of the Noria, the Museum and the Aqueduct", being dated between the centuries XI and XIII, the aqueduct represents an element of the ethnographic heritage of the traditional irrigated land of Murcia that allows understanding and interpret its operation.

This well of cultural interest, with the category of monument, is formed by three aqueducts attached to each other to house the channels of the Alquibla, Turbedal and Dava ditches, in order to save the drainage of the ravine of Las Zorreras on the Segura river .

Source: Ayuntamiento de Alcantarilla