The Torre del Agua ( es, Water Tower) is a tower built at the

Expo 2008 Expo 2008 was an international exposition held in the year 2008 from 14 June (Saturday) to 14 September (Sunday) in Zaragoza, Spain, with the theme of "Water and Sustainable Development". The exposition was placed in a meander of the river Ebro. ...

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Zaragoza Zaragoza, also known in English as Saragossa,''Encyclopædia Britannica'"Zaragoza (conventional Saragossa)" is the capital city of the Zaragoza Province and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. It lies by the Ebro river and its tributari ...

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. It was designed by and constructed of concrete, steel and glass. Seen from above, the structure has a droplet-of-water shape. It consists of a transparent glass design and includes a big three-storey basement. It provides 10,400 accessible square metres, in the basement's floor and the remainder divided between the ramps and flat lands inside the glass tower. There is a panoramic bar in the uppermost floor with views over the exposition site and the city. During Expo 2008, the building hosted the ''Water for Life'' exposition. After the Expo, it was acquired by Caja de Ahorros de la Inmaculada (CAI). On 3 August 2013, it was reopened to the public.

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Water Tower at Expo Zaragoza 2008 website
Towers completed in 2008 Buildings and structures in Zaragoza World's fair architecture in Zaragoza {{Spain-struct-stub