History

If Joseph Conrad hatched the plot of his famous novel "The Heart of Darkness" in the meandering waters of the Congo River, closer to us, although distant in time, the Conqueror Fernández de Lugo hatched his own plot to supply his new town of La Laguna, located on the high plateau of the recently conquered island of Tenerife, with drinking water by means of pipes, wells, fountains, ponds, troughs, basins and washing places. We go back to the dawn of the 16th century, in a town that was beginning to beat, pumping water from the nearby mountains, from the fertile…