Muel Dam

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The Muel Dam was a Roman dam in the Spanish community Muel, Zaragoza, in Aragon. Built in the 1st century shut-off was designed as a gravity dam.

The approximately 13 meters high and at least 60 meters long wall was built of clean laid layers of limestone blocks, namely using runners and binders and binders were set only irregularly. The sheets were on average about 50 inches high. The wall thickness at the base is estimated at 7 meters. The jammed by the Wall Lake is completely silted up to the mural crown over the centuries. Excavations in this area have uncovered burials from the 14th to the 17th century. In the 18th century the church Virgen de las Fuentes was built above the dam, whose frescoes were painted by Francisco de Goya.

The fed by Huerva Muel Dam was built on the bricks of legionaries of Legio IV Macedonica in the first century after identification of markings and served the water supply of the recently founded Colonia Caesar Augusta, now Zaragoza.