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Jairan Cisterns
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Fridays from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., Saturdays from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. and Sundays from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
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Other nearby places of interest are the Almerí Heritage Interpretation Center ;a, the City Hall and the Cathedral of the Encarnación.
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Highights
The Muslim cisterns located on Tenor Iribarne Street are made up of three brick naves connected to each otherand covered withhalf-barrel vaults that are supported by Roman pillars and caliphal arches, a clear example of the reuse of materials during the Taifa period. These enormous infrastructures had space to store some 630,000 liters of water, enough to supply the population of Almería in the 11th century for several days. This construction was expanded a few years later during the reign of Ibn Sumadih with a new pipeline that reached the aljama mosque /strong> and supplied the rest of the city, although we must keep in mind that this hydraulic network did not reach private houses, to get water it was necessary to go to the nearest public sources. This cisterncontinued In use until the 19th century, in 1965 it was destroyed. one of its warehouses, and currently, after the restoration process carried out by the City Council, it hosts cycles of temporary exhibitions and conferences among other cultural events.< /span>
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Monday to Thursday.
Long description
Jairán, the king of the Taifa of Almería< /strong> commanded Build between the years 1012 and 1028 a large hydraulic complex in the city with the aim of getting water from outside of the city, coming from the Alhadra Fountains and the Cistern, even inside the walled enclosure. The route was more than six kilometers up to that the water reached the Puerta de Pechina -current Puerta de Purchena- and was stored in the cisterns to be able to supply the entire population,< /strong> Today, the only remains that remain in the city belonging to these infrastructures are these wonderful Cisterns of Jairán.
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