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Aqueduct of Albatana

Albatana, Campos de Hellín, Albacete

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Aqueduct of Albatana

Monument · Albatana, Campos de Hellín, Albacete

Aqueduct declared a Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection) in 1990, with a course of about 1,600 metres and 61 arches; the present one, from the 19th century, replaced an earlier 18th-century aqueduct whose masonry remains, known as the Acueducto Viejo, are still preserved. It runs between the Fuente de Albatana and the Molino de Arriba, two kilometres from the town centre, and was used to carry water with the least possible loss of level across very flat terrain: first through a trench and then, for most of its length, by means of a channel raised on a wall. The mill it supplied dates back to the 18th-century repopulation by the marquises of Espinardo, lords of Ontur, Albatana and Agramón, and it is an outstanding work of hydraulic engineering in the province of Albacete.

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