BECAUSE OF ITS GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION, the Sicilian city of Palermo experiences Sirocco’s wind, a warm wind coming from Sahara which causes dusty dry conditions. From an early age, maintaining water supplies and finding relief from the heat were the primary needs of the Sicilian inhabitants in the summer. Luckily, the ancient city is equipped with some innovative infrastructure.
From 831 to 1072, Palermo was under Arab rule during the Emirate of Sicily. During this period, many of the city’s most distinctive features emerged, from culture and cuisine to architecture and engineering. One of those features is Palermo’s qanats, underground aqueducts originally developed in ancient Iran. (In Arabic, this type of channel is more often called a kariz.)
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