Water Transport In Lleida 200 Years Ago

WATER TRANSPORT IN LLEIDA 200 YEARS AGO

EL DIPÒSIT DE L’AIGUA

LES FONTS HISTÒRIQUES

OBJECTIUS

OBJECTIVES OF THE WORKSHOP

UNESCO objectives: Historical monuments in Lleida.

COMENIUS programme:“Water is life”

Water transport.

English through topics.

Art.

HISTÒRIA DEL DIPÒSIT

IN THE MIDDLE

AGES, IN EUROPE,

THERE WERE MANY

HEALTH PROBLEMS

BECAUSE OF THE

CONDITIONS OF

WATER AND ITS

SHORTNESS.

THE WATER IN LLEIDA

WAS NOT CLEAN AND

NOT ENOUGH.

THE GOVERNMENT IN

LLEIDA LOOKED FOR A

SOLUTION.

THE WATER CAME FROM

THE VALLCALENT CANAL.

IT ARRIVED IN TOWN IN THE

“PIQUES FOUNTAIN”OUT OF

THE BOTERS ENTRANCE.

PEOPLE HAD

TO GO TO

THE FOUNTAINS TO GET WATER

TO DRINK, TO COOK....

THE PAERIA GOVERNORS

DECIDED

TO BUILD A

RESERVOIR

TO CHECK

AND

CONTROL

WATER

BEFORE

ARRIVING TO

THE FOUNTAIN.

THE KING OF

SPAIN,

“CARLES III”

GAVE

MONEY FOR ITS

CONSTRUCTION.

THE WATER IN THE

RESERVOIR,

“DIPOSIT DE L’AIGUA”

WAS CONDUCTED TO

THE FOUNTAINS IN

TOWN.

FOUNTAINS:

Font de l’Ensenyança.

Font de la Catedral. Avui al peu del castell. “Font dels Tritons.”

Font plaça St Francesc. Avui a la plaça de l’Estació.

Font del Roser.

Font de les Sirenes. Avui desapareguda.

Font de les Petxines. Avui als Camps Elisis.

Font del Pla de l’Aigua

Font de les Piques Estava fora de muralles, al portal de Boters. Avui al costat de l’esglèsia de St. Llorenç.

Font de Gardeny. Recollia l’aigua del turó

Avui a la baixada de la Trinitat. Anomenada Font del Governador. La va pagar el governador de Blondel.

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