Built
for
supplying
water to the Convent of Christ, it
is 6 km wide with 180 arcs, sometimes formed by two chunks of overlapping lines,
starting in Pegões - a little village, and finishes at Cerca
in a tank of irrigation.
It congregates the water of four springs, having solved the problem of supplying
of the Convent
which had been done til then, with watering holes.
The work begun in 1593, when all the foutains and pine forests were bought, in
the kingdom of D. Filipe I, under the command of Filipe Terzi. It was finished
in 1614 by Pedro Fernandes de Torres.
It reached the washbasins of the dormitories at the Convent
in 1617 and the Cloister of D. Joao III
in 1619.
People who helped in this section:
António Figueiredo, João Nunes ©
Paulo Rodrigues - 2006
Translation: Cláudia Costa / Paulo
Rodrigues
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