Next to the castle you will find the ruins of the Church of Sto. Silos Sunday. The legend tells that it was built on the place where the Arabs held captive Christians in prison and there was Santo Domingo doing his job. In the building there are traces of the disciples of Vandelvira. It's a must-see for any lover of history.

The Iruela was part of Cazorla until 1370, when Archbishop D. Gome Manrique gave it independence, power and shield. His political and territorial position has allowed him to preserve an important heritage: the Conistory House - a proud building in the Mudejar style of Toledan - and the Church of the Immaculate Conception are part of this legacy.

The population has a core worth visiting. The streets are steep and narrow, with crouched houses and flowers on the balconies. In the center there is a beautiful fountain from which several roads arise to surround the village. From here you can go up to Temple Street on a beautiful stone road accompanied by fig trees and cypresses.

We suggest:

• About five minutes from La Iruela you will find Burunchel. Come to know the Hermitage of San Julián and the temple of the Holy Spirit among other attractions of this pedany.

• On August 27, during the summer parties of the village you will see a curious pyrotechnic show, in which the castle is also the protagonist.

It is a very quiet area, surrounded by endless olive fields, where there are fountains with drinking water, barbecues, tables and seats. In the river you can practice, in season, fishing of the common trout and the barb, or practice swimming.

The landscape surrounding this equipment, located on the rest of a pecuary road, is typically olive-growing and invites hiking. The facilities, with a capacity for a hundred people, have areas for tents, roofed dining, kitchen, toilets and showers.

Most of these buildings are based as a second residence during the High Empire, although with the crisis of the third century and the insecurity of the cities many great aristocrats withdraw to their villages. As the residence becomes, the luxury and refinement of which the rich mosaics and the beginning of the walls of the different rooms are preserved as a testimony. Next to the Palaciega area there were other units with stables, with forges, alfares and, ultimately, everything necessary to be self-sufficient away from the city. Over time, the cities lost their importance, had to wafer to avoid dangers and the cultural spotlights that had gone out.

If we know nothing about the inhabitants of these luxurious rooms, we know less about those people who left the city to take refuge in these villas. They helped defend property in exchange for being able to cultivate a piece of land with which to get what is necessary to feed. Here is the origin of what would be the vasalage in the Middle Ages. Nor do we know how the craftsmen made these great mosaics, nor their living conditions, would they know that they represented the images they reproduced with the tesels? and the last inhabitants at the end of the fourth century?

The inhabited cores around the valley were able to take advantage of the river's passage by creating small channels and waterfalls. You will see great walnuts and some orchards by the villages, irrigated with a pure crystalline water. At this point, the river still has the presence of the common trout, a species that only lives in especially clean waters.

After Las Anchuricas the valley goes to Las Juntas de Miller, where the Segura receives its second tributary, the Zumeta River. Together they cross the provincial limit that is located there, entering the province of Albacete. In this place a hydroelectric power plant was erected in the 1950s to take advantage of the flow of these two rivers.

The valley offers pleasant visits around it that will allow you to get to know the Sierra de Segura in depth. Among others, we recommend:

• Visit the village of La Toba, a place where water is the great protagonist. If the cold water does not impress you, you can go up to the birth of La Toba, which is found in a curious cave well known in the region.

• Rest next to the reservoir of Las Anchuricas. The water and the high mountains have created this peaceful place, of which you will surely have to leave.

• Walk around some of the nearby villages such as La Fuente del Esparto, La Peguera del Madroño or Las Gorgollitas. The latter offers an exciting view of the valley.

• Seating water in the impressive fountain of The Four Caños, between the Anchuricas reservoir and Miller's Boards.