Tenerife, below Romantica I (Town of Los Realejos), there is a grand-looking ruins "el Elevador de Aguas de Gordujuela" from which to draw lines in the brick zigzag up the slope.
What seems like a fairytale castle ruined, however, the less romantic relic of modern engineering in the early 20th Century. In fact, you can see here the remains of the first water-pumping system of the Island. It was built in 1903 by the Hamilton family and the military engineer José Galván, the water which Gordejuela source that arose just above the water surface and the water previously flowed into the sea unused, making for agricultural purposes.
Thanks to the engineering, the water was now pumped to the people and their fields, thereby ensuring that could be tapped by then dry fallow land for agriculture.
currently sought the municipality of Los Realejos about having it the ruins a World Heritage Site and thus preserved for posterity.
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