Aqueduct and Roman baths in Almuñécar

In Almuñecar, the aqueduct and Roman baths bear witness to a majestic work that, in olden times, captured water and brought it into the city. The waterworks begin in the area known as Las Angosturas, at the Verde river, where the water intake has been documented: a vaulted canal with a length of approximately 500 metres.

Nowadays, we can still see several sections of the Aqueduct in Torrecuevas. The first is the longest, with 17 arches with normal light and another two with reduced light that flank a normal one. When the duct changes basin, to the Seco river through a tunnel, it crosses 3 ravines using their respective aqueducts.

Aqueduct IV, with a length of around 72 metres, is the most spectacular. It comprises two sections with nine main arcades flanked by two with secondary light and two manholes very close to both ends. At the end of this, the channel opens into a square well, the only one on the route, as the rest that have been documented are circular.

The last part, in the city, goes to the old quarter and is called La Carrera. Next to it, a major water complex has been documented, comprised of baths and a series of room structures dated back to the last quarter of the 1st century AD The baths are made up of several pools, with both hot and cold water, with the ruins of the hypocaust and the oven, along with a network of pipes made of lead (they are buried for conservation).

The site has been dated from the middle of the 1st century A.D. until the 3rd or even the 4th century A. D. when most of the rooms were abandoned.