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"Murcia and water: the story of a passion" is the theme of the exhibition which opened yesterday at the Cultural Center of Ceuta and which are the relationship of Murcia with water from prehistory to the present, not explained only didactic, but from a standpoint of protest and critical.
Remain on display until January 28
The Culture of Water, as a permanent feature in Murcia and the Murcia, is told by analyzing the shortage of this precious item, but also from the point of view of human ingenuity to their regulation and use.
Through panels and other media, the exhibition tells how 4,500 years ago the first farmers settled in the area of Jumilla and original and skilled resources used to capture water flows necessary for their crops.
Analyzes the first irrigation techniques, 3,700 years ago, as well as some primitive reservoirs at the time Argaric were used to store water and use it in times of scarcity.
Days of deprivation, drought, the floods that have occurred devastating, catastrophic, of which we have certain knowledge from the year 738 BC.
No shortage of references to the supply and drainage system created in the Punic Cartagena, which continued during the Roman through a network of water collection and distribution would not be so perfect that improved their approaches and effectiveness until the nineteenth century .
The sample gives a better understanding of the Roman aqueducts, wells, galleries, called ports, irrigation with cold sores and the first traces of water use for medicinal purposes Archena spas and Fortuna.
Nor does it explain the critical paths of a complex network of dams, splitters, quijeros, ditches and armbands that even today, 1,200 years later, remain valid and most of the names they gave their builders, parents also control the great work is the famous hydraulic Contraparada.
The exhibition is sponsored by the Regional Assembly of Murcia and the Academia Alfonso X el Sabio.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Ceutí
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