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This is available in the conditioning project promoted by the Department of Urban Planning, Environment, Water and Gardening that aims to value the monument by intervening in the public space that is immediate.

Another singular action will be the decision to uncover the Alfatego and Churra la Vieja ditches, since one of the main objectives of the project is to make visible and value the knot of hydraulic infrastructures produced in this environment.

Moving away from the Ñora Wheel of the current road to expand its protection, adapting a pedestrian perimeter of the monument of material and environmental quality is the main criterion taken into account in the drafting of the basic project and execution of the environment of the monument.

The work has been promoted by the Department of Urbanism, Environment, Water and Garden, which runs Antonio Navarro, who yesterday held a meeting with the residents of the district and the architect director, Antonio Abellán, to explain the details of the action that it arises.

This adaptation contemplates the reorganization of the public space (road, sidewalks and landscaped areas), the creation of an area of ​​urban and landscape quality around the Wheel that favors a better enjoyment and understanding and a better integration with the present and future structure of roads and paths of the Huerta de Murcia and its landscape and cultural values.

It does not include interventions of any kind on the physical element of La Rueda de La Ñora and its Aqueduct.

It pretends, that yes, its putting in value by means of the improvement of its surroundings through the intervention in the immediate public space (pavements, roads and gardens).

The budget of the plan amounts to 403,079 euros.

The councilman of Urbanism explained the need to carry out this plan of adaptation since 'this monument is an enclave of enormous heritage wealth, in addition to the singularity that supposes constituting a main knot of the network of irrigation, to be born there two new acequias (Alfatego and Churra la Vieja) from that of La Aljufía '.

A pedestrian promenade and a plaza for public events

The set of planned actions affect the street and the square.

In the first one, a wooded pedestrian promenade will be created that connects the district with the monument by replacing the current parking strip and sidewalk with a new sidewalk and a tree-lined linear parterre to shade the promenade.

In addition, a provisional garden parallel to the aqueduct will be built, which is understood as an archaeological reserve area that will allow future excavations to be considered to know the buried part of the monument.

"With both actions, the original situation of the aqueduct can be recovered to a large extent as an isolated element surrounded by an unbuilt environment," says Antonio Navarro.

Regarding the square, the project plans to unify the central space and the planting of four large trees (almeces) that protect the sun in summer, allowing its entry in winter.

To facilitate its use for events and meetings, a small stepped step of cobblestone and white marble will be created, topped with a raised planter.

Open ditches

Another singular action will be the decision to unclog acequias, since one of the main objectives of the project is to make visible and value the knot of ditches produced in this environment.

For this reason, open channels will be created in the two ditches that pass under the intervention scope, currently hidden: Alfatego and Churra la Vieja.

Between the right margin of the first one and the sidewalk of Rueda Street, a small triangular garden of traditional uses will be created.

On the stretch where the ditch of Churra La Vieja will remain piped, there will be exclusively gardening tasks creating a path framed by native riparian vegetation that, in the future, will become one of the backbone of the landscape, connecting districts, monument and unique corners of the garden.

The gardens, protagonists

The green spaces are the main part of this project and are the main protagonists of the adaptation plan for the surroundings of the Rue de la Ñora.

In all of them, autochthonous vegetation has been selected, and it has been taken into account that they offer optimum durability and maintenance.

The project contemplates the creation of five gardens:

- Provisional Garden of the Aqueduct, located in the space between the new sidewalk on the right-hand side of Rueda Street and the Aqueduct wall, with two bands: one of red, continuous width, parallel to the sidewalk, a row of mulberry trees that allows shading the long walkway next to the aqueduct without preventing the views of the aqueduct and another band of variable width, from the band of albero to the base of the monument, where the provisional garden with fruit trees is created, waiting that the excavations of the base of the wall of the aqueduct are planned.

- Garden of the stands, in the square, topped with a raised planter.

- Margins of uncovered ditches.

For the margins of land of the two ditches that the project proposes to de-incubate in its most immediate space (one to two and a half meters from the canal), where various species will be planted (Anea, grouped junk or churrero, wicker, horsetail, lily yellow and vinca)

- Green path on the Churra La Vieja canal, with stretches of uneven and not out-of-the-way ditch.

The proposal of landscaping consists in the reconstruction, insofar as possible, of the surroundings of the banks of small channels and channels of Murcia.

- Garden of local traditional uses, which is located in the small triangular space between the section of the ditch of Alfatego that is proposed to desentubar and Rueda Street (next to the irrigation channel of La Aljufía).

The proposed use is the most similar to a traditional garden, and consists of an area of ​​relaxation and rest, a particularly nice and beautiful corner, which emulates a soto huertano, by creating a "small room closed" by an edge shrub with a single access from the sidewalk of the street, which promotes the safety and care of children.

It is a place where you have the feeling of being surrounded by vegetation, with varieties linked to traditional local crafts and medicine (elm, esparto, albardín, palmetto, mint, pennyroyal, melissa, hyssop, sage, calendula or mastic.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia