Alcantarilla

The municipality of Alcantarilla is only seven kilometers from the city of Murcia, on the route to Andalusia. The name of the town comes from the Arabic word Al-qantara, meaning "bridge", probably referring to the fact that it connected the towns of Murcia and Librilla. To know who the first settlers of Alcantarilla were it is necessary to rewind a bit more until the Roman civilization, which built and aqueduct in the 4^th century b.c. and cultivated these lands irrigated by the Segura river.

Some of the highlights of this municipality are Museo Etnológico de la Huerta de Murcia, a museum exhibiting the clothes, utensils, ceramic works and barracks historically used in the Murcian countryside. Not far, one can find La Noria, a waterwheel used as part of a complex irrigation system. This 18^th-century iron waterwheel has been declared a Historic-Artistic Site. Another historical place is Casa de las Cayitas, a 17^th-century building home to the Local Inquisition Tribunal for decades.

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