The Caposele Water Museum is located inside Casa Houston, near the Sele Springs in Piazza della Sanità. This place of interest was established in order to highlight the importance of the springs in the municipality of the Sele Valley: watercourses that, with a flow rate of 4,000 liters per second, quench the thirst of the entire Puglia. The Museum, in fact, collects the testimonies of the history of the Apulian Aqueduct and aims to underline the importance of water as an irreplaceable resource, read more
The Caposele Water Museum is located inside Casa Houston, near the Sele Springs in Piazza della Sanità. This place of interest was established in order to highlight the importance of the springs in the municipality of the Sele Valley: watercourses that, with a flow rate of 4,000 liters per second, quench the thirst of the entire Puglia. The Museum, in fact, collects the testimonies of the history of the Apulian Aqueduct and aims to underline the importance of water as an irreplaceable resource, in an educational key that lends itself well to collective use. Inside there are also equipment and cartographic material that illustrate the routes and places of greatest historical-architectural value in the area. A peculiar aspect of the Water Museum is that of leading the viewer on a virtual tour that will make him discover the naturalistic wonders of the Sele Valley. Inside it, a series of graphic and photographic panels, some models and historical finds are displayed that tell the story of the construction of the Apulian Aqueduct, the technologies tested and the transformations undergone by the territory, due to the integration of the infrastructures. The illustrations also explain the evolution of all the territories affected by the event, through images of the time that transport the visitor to the various places of the original route and testify to the changes brought by the aqueduct work to the communities, in terms of implementation and management of a service of fundamental importance for the development of the territory. read less
