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Photo: Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
World's largest Noria, traditional waterwheels along the Orontes river. The wheels generally turn all year round, except when water levels are low during the dry season.
The Norias of Hama are a series of 17 norias, historic water-raising machines for irrigation, along the Orontes River in the city of Hama, Syria. They are tall water wheels with box-like water collection compartments embedded around their rims. As the river flows, it pushes these water collection boxes under water, where they quickly fill up, then are driven up to the top of the wheel where they empty into an aqueduct. The aqueduct can carry the water to supply buildings, gardens and farmland.
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A little hidden in the old town, is not as big as its counterpart in Damascus but still very much worth a visit.