Underground Cistern
An underground cistern is a water tank excavated in the basement and fed by drainage (especially in Andalusia) or by an aqueduct.
We find many examples in Moorish Spain: in Castilian , the local name is aljibe or algibe and comes from the Arabic language.
Grenada
Albaicin hill, unlike that of Sabika its neighbor, has no elevation allowing it to have a normal diet with water from the Sierra Nevada.
There is, therefore, dug many aljibes, distinct wells.
Hurtling down the slopes of the Albaicn with donkeys, aguadores were an important profession for the city, this figure has remained (statues and paintings).
Constantinople ( Istanbul )
The capital of the Byzantine Empire had a large number of underground tanks , the most famous, the Basilica Cistern (Yerebatan Saraya) and Cistern Philoxenos are still visitable. They took the form of tombs rooms whose ceiling was supported by hundreds of columns.
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