{"id":125,"date":"2022-02-12T20:01:21","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T19:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museos.turismodealmeria.es\/museo\/aljibes-arabes\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T17:11:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T16:11:18","slug":"arabic-wells-water-wells","status":"publish","type":"museo","link":"https:\/\/www.turismodealmeria.org\/museos\/en\/museo\/arabic-wells-water-wells\/","title":{"rendered":"Arabic Wells (water wells)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almer\u00eda, in the Muslim period, did not have a water supply network to buildings, making it necessary to raise pillars and fountains. Water supply to Almeria we hear mainly thanks to\u00a0<strong>al-Himyari and al-Udri<\/strong>. According to al-Himyari, Jair\u00e1n during his reign (1012-1028) was the one who built the water line, and according to al-Udri was during the reign of his successor Zuhayr (1028-1038). In any case, they are traditionally known as Cisterns of Jair\u00e1n.<\/p>\n<p>What is certain is that a water pipe was built from\u00a0<strong>source area Alhadra to the highest part of the city<\/strong>, Puerta de Pechina (actualPuerta Purchena), building up rain tanks for public use in the eleventh century belonging to Taifa era.<\/p>\n<p>Of these wells, which are currently in Tenor Iribarne street, only three interconnected buildings of 15 x 3.5 m of surface, built of solid bricks and barrel vaults are preserved.<\/p>\n<p>The volume of stored water was 630,000 liters, enough to supply the city in a long siege, since it had also the existence of wells to wells and irrigation ditches amount.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2699,"template":"","tipo":[4],"class_list":["post-125","museo","type-museo","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tipo-museos-almeria-ciudad"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turismodealmeria.org\/museos\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/museo\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turismodealmeria.org\/museos\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/museo"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turismodealmeria.org\/museos\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/museo"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turismodealmeria.org\/museos\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turismodealmeria.org\/museos\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"tipo","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turismodealmeria.org\/museos\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tipo?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}