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Los Arcos Aqueduct of Alpuente

Alpuente, Los Serranos, Valencia

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Los Arcos Aqueduct of Alpuente

Monument · Alpuente, Los Serranos, Valencia

Los Arcos Aqueduct of Alpuente

The Los Arcos aqueduct, declared a Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection) in 2005, is a hydraulic infrastructure built between the 16th and 17th centuries to carry to Alpuente the water of the Nueva and Marimacho springs, intended for irrigation, consumption and the town's wash-houses. It forms part of a larger system together with the springs' catchment and the Acequia Madre, excavated over some 230 metres up to the aqueduct itself, which crosses the difference in height of the río Reguero with a masonry arcade of straight layout and 265 metres in length. It is located 2.5 kilometres north of the town, on the road towards La Yesa. In the 1970s part of the channel was piped underground; it now feeds the fountain of the Purísima.

Photo: José María Villagrasa Sebastián (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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