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The town of Puerto Lumbreras opens new Water Trail can be accessed by lumbrerenses and tourists, and includes more than 50 heritage resources related to water culture in the municipality.
In this sense, the Councillor for Culture and Tourism, Maribel Martinez, said that "the new Water Walking is an enhancement of the different natural courses of water and recovery of the assets in it. We tried to improve their environment and adapt to the different routes that can be enjoyed both by locals and visitors from other municipalities. "
Thus, the route can be done on foot or by bicycle, and she can meet the water catchment systems known as the ports, and in turn may visit ponds, ditches, fountains, mills and other assets which make up the Water Route.
It should be noted that the proceedings were completed in late July and have been developed through an investment of € 50,000 through the Promotion Plan of the Tourism Product Nogalte Medina, and are, in the creation of trails, signage and interpretive panels Water Route, and reclamation of existing heritage resources.
Urban route that integrates the Water Route
The journey has its beginning in one of the viewpoints Nogalte Castle, where citizens can know the feedback of groundwater through the ports that are located in the Rambla de Nogalte.
To do this in the beginning you will visit the cave on the theme 'Water harvesting systems', and then enabled a 'Viewer Lumbreras' in one of the viewpoints.
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 bridge of La Rambla, 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 returns 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 Gardens in 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 ends at the Fountain of the pipes, which has five pumps that supply water from the ports.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Puerto Lumbreras
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