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The Mayor of the town, Pedro Antonio Sanchez, along with the Councillor for Culture and Tourism, and the councilman of Youth and Sports, presented this morning the project and the contents of the new Water Trail will be open from next August after the "recovery of many assets and liabilities related to water culture and the creation of trails that provide educational and interpretive panels for visitors."
Water Route will offer more than 50 heritage resources of interest canals, mills, ponds, fountains, cisterns, caves and waterholes, in addition to farming terraces with flood irrigation.
Tuesday July 17, 2012.
The Municipality of Puerto Lumbreras has designed the project for the creation of the Water Route in Puerto Lumbreras, which may be accessed from next August.
This morning, Mayor of the town, Pedro Antonio Sanchez, along with the Councillor for Culture and Tourism, Maribel Martinez, and the councilman of Youth and Sports, José Aragón, presented the project and the contents of the new Route Water including various "footpaths to publicize the culture of water in the municipality through more than 50 heritage sites of interest."
In this sense, the Mayor of Puerto Lumbreras, Pedro Antonio Sanchez, explained that "this is a new tourist and cultural project with which we intend to offer new alternatives to our visitors to learn about the culture of water in Puerto Lumbreras."
Thus, Sanchez explained that the route "will offer a round trip of over 2,300 meters that will show the assets of interest related to the collection, distribution, storage and supply of water in the history of our municipality."
Thus, the route can be made on foot or by bicycle, and she will learn about the water harvesting systems known as the ports, and in turn may visit ponds, ditches, fountains, mills and other assets which make up the Water Route.
Thus, the actions to be completed during the month of July is being developed through an investment of € 50,000 through the Plan to Promote Tourism Product Nogalte Medina, and are, in the creation of trails, signage and interpretative panels Water Route, and reclamation of existing heritage resources.
Urban route that integrates the Water Route
The tour will have its home in one of the viewpoints Nogalte Castle, where citizens can learn the system of extraction of groundwater through the ports that are located in the Rambla de Nogalte.
To do this in the beginning will visit the cave house on the theme 'Water harvesting systems', and then enabled a 'Viewer Lumbreras' in one of the viewpoints, which also provides a general overview the route to be undertaken, as well as the location of the assets hydraulics.
Thus, from the start the visitors can see much of the route of the Rambla de Nogalte as it passes through the town and see where the ports are located in the "Caño Viejo" and "Cano - Contra pipe", and understand the operating system of extraction of groundwater.
The route continues down the hill de la Pava, as would the ancient inhabitants of the castle and the cave houses Nogalte to search for water.
Then the route takes tourists to the Rambla gateway through which cross the left margin, with a stop at the Plaza commemorating the flood of 1973.
Then the route goes to Mill Street where they are located, first, the Moulin de Jerez, and then the Molino de los Arcos, which has an aqueduct at the entrance of water.
On this tour you can also view the ditches and primers that supply these historical water infrastructure and the fields and the typical houses of the garden lumbrerense.
From here the visitor will return to the city center retracing his steps, or connecting to the Rambla de Nogalte through the paths that lead right to the city center, where the route continues with a visit to the Raft of the Sewers, located in the Jardines de San Rafael.
Along with the Raft of the Sewers, you can visit the old laundry of the raft, consisting of four batteries double faced, recently restored, and which also is enabling an Interpretation Centre Road to provide more detailed information of each the assets visited.
After that, the route will end at the Fountain of the pipes, which has five pumps that supply water from the ports.
Thus, the entire route will be signposted and provide interpretive panels and representative to present the water supply systems in the municipality's history.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Puerto Lumbreras
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