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History of a passion ']

Through nearly fifty panels, the exhibition 'Murcia and water.

History of a passion ', offers a journey of more than 5000 years of history around the ways that Murcia has had to make the most of scarce water received in our region.

The sample was exposed in 53 rooms and various municipalities in the Region of Murcia, having been exposed last December at the Committee of European Regions in Brussels.

Is scheduled for the remainder of this year travel to other regional municipalities.

The exhibition is organized by the Joint Commission Regional Assembly of Murcia and the Real Academia Alfonso X the Wise, and displayed between 18 February and 5 March at the Faculty of Law Faculty of the University of Murcia.

The inauguration will be held at 11 am and run by the President of the Regional Assembly of Murcia, Francisco Celdran, and the Rector of the University of Murcia José Antonio Cobacho.

The sample was designed in an eminently informative tone.

The aim is to reach as many of Murcia the desire of the people of this land, over the centuries, to get water, but also to master.

The exhibition aims to explain that this effort has generated centuries of culture, water culture, enriched our heritage, not only with traces of water-related mills, but institutions as unique as the Council of Good Men, the River Basin or Channels Commonwealth Taibilla, recognized and admired internationally.

The exhibition is organized into 15 chapters that review issues such as our grandparents and water, the water lords, May Like water, the canals, uncovered a complex maze, the risk: traditional systems of irrigation techniques of century, water mills, wells, water mills and windmills, drawing water from the rocks and sea water desalination, among others.

The curator of the exhibition is the official University of Murcia Nicolás Pascual Vera.

The drawings, one aspect that most enrich the sample, are Adalid Isidoro González-Cabezas, while most of the photographs are of Pedro Pedroza and Luis Urbina.

Source: UMU