Interior Aljibe (Cistern) Castillo de Los Vélez

Distance:
Country

Spain

Region

Murcia

Site

Los Vélez Castle of Mula

Age

Early modern period

Internal ID

aljibe_3-10-18-nonormal

Digitization date

8/02/2018

Digitization method

Photogrammetry

Photos / scans number

867

Hardware

Canon EOS 5D Mark IV

Lens

Canon EF 16-35 mm f/2.8L

Technician

Víctor Manuel López-Menchero

Postprocesing

Bart McLeod and Jeff Du Vernay

The cistern (aljibe) of the castle of Los Vélez in Mula (Murcia) was designed and built to guarantee the water supply to the defenders of the keep in case of a siege. The exterior is protected by solid stone walls built directly on the natural bedrock. The cistern has a rectangular floor plan and is covered by a barrel vault. Inside it preserves the red plaster (almagra) that served both to waterproof the space and to improve water conservation.

This model was created from 867 images. The images were aligned and modeled in Agisoft Photoscan 1.4.