El Amaniel Aqueduct, is located on the current Pablo Iglesias Avenue. Historically, the only water supply that Madrid had were water trips, an ancient system of collecting the liquid element through the water tables and streams in the northeast of Madrid and which by the mid-220.000th century, with XNUMX inhabitants, were insufficient.

In 1848, the Minister of Instruction, Commerce and Public Works, Juan Bravo Murillo, commissioned a Commission headed by engineers Juan Rafo y Juan Rivera with the purpose of studying alternative projects for water supply that had been carried out previously. In December of that year, the so-called Report on the conduction of water to Madrid, a revolutionary project that consisted of bringing water from the Lozoya River, in the mountains to Madrid. The project was called Canal de Isabel IIDoes it sound familiar to you? He was named after the queen. Isabel II which largely financed it.
The works began in 1851 with the construction of the Pontón de la Oliva Dam, very close to the town of Patones.

This was the last aqueduct-bridge of the Lower Canal of Madrid. A water transport channel of the Isabel II Canal that connects the lower reservoir of the Torrelaguna power plant with the Philippine Islands reservoir (the so-called Tercer Deposito) already in the city. The Lower Canal has a length of 58,1 km, with a minimum gradient, which does not reach 24,5 m.

Its final section, from the Empalme beacon to Madrid, was part of the primitive canal inaugurated by Queen Isabel II in 1858.

It is important to highlight that it is a totally different work from the so-called Amaniel's Journey or Palace. This was built in the period from 1614-1616, and was called the Palacio Voyage since during the reign of Philip III was dedicated to supplying Alcazar from Madrid. He provided water to three public fountains, those of Matalobos, the Priest's, and the Plaza de la Armería. It was close to the Fountain of the Caños del Peral some of whose galleries can be seen in the metropolitan museum of the Opera Station and to which we will dedicate another of our 365 days in Madrid.

In 2004, a City Council project proposed joining Cuzco Plaza with the M-30, crossing the district through an underground tunnel that involved the demolition of the aqueduct. The opposition of the neighbors managed to save it, but unfortunately a large part of it was buried at street level, making it impossible to see the seventeen eyes that made it up, but at least the part that we can see today was preserved.

A abrazo.