In the past, views of the Guadalquivir presented a panorama of sailing ships, market gardens and water mills that ground cereals and the henna used in perfumes and in dye products.
Next to the Molino de Martos and La Alegría mills, now museums, is La Albolafia. Ordered to be built by Ab’d al-Rahman II, its function was to send river water to the Emir’s palace by an ingenious aqueduct.
It boasts a restored water wheel that Queen Isabel La Católica ordered to be dismantled because of the noise it made so close to the royal residence.
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