The crossbow is made up of two cores of houses separated by an old laundry room that awaits the arrival of people in laundry clothes. During the winter it has only four neighbors. It surprises the cleaning of the village and the freshness of the water that runs next to it. If you close your eyes you can discover that the silence is broken only by the rooster singing, the cat's maullido or the water running.

Next to the Ballestera we find Montalvo with a completely different landscape. It dominates an elevation that is accessed by a road that zigzaguea to the village and offers us impressive views over the valley. You can see narrow streets, narrow walls, houses recovered from ruin, all surrounded by privileged views of the valley.

In the eastern part of the Sierra de Segura there is a spectacular karmic landscape, characterized by the presence of an exokarst of exceptional beauty with an immense field of dolins and uvalas, splashed with sims, of different scale. This karmic relief is controlled litologically and structurally, and conditioned by a high mountain climate, with level periods that accentuate the dissolution in karmic cavities. In this area, a carbonated altiplanicie that includes from the fields of Hernán Perea to those of the Black Pinar, stands out a series of simas, within dolinas and uvalas, among which stand out the one of the Campo del Espino, the one of the Hunzón, the one of the Cortijo, and mainly the very one of the Black Pinar.

The morphology of these cavities, with frequent balance chimneys, uses and some subhorizontal galleries, with clear structural control, reflects the importance of dissolution in the geomorphological evolution of them, with few examples of tectonic simas such. The most important of its development is that of the Black Pinar which is the sink of a large dolina of 105 x 130 m. In the area around the mouth a small channel runs through which a water course temporarily circulates that penetrates the cavity as a ponor. It has a large mouth (8 x 2 m.) that communicates with a large initial well of 10 x 16 m that descends to 104 m., where a second well of 40 m is started; reaching the bottom of the main track of the sima. Fifteen meters above the second well is the side track of smaller dimensions, but it reaches more depth, reaching more than 100 m.

Source: Inventory of Georresources of Andalusia. Environmental Council. Junta de Andalusia.

Here was born in the 1950s a village with the same name: Miller's Boards. This core was created to house the personnel employed in the construction of Miller's hydraulic power plant. To supply water to this plant the reservoirs of the Anchuricas (Segura River) and the Old River (Zumeta River) were built. The water jumps are 185 and 195 meters high respectively.

A magnificent view of Las Juntas is from the place known as the Loma del Paerón. To get to this point we recommend you make the route "Loma del Paerón" which is identified as PR-A 108. From here a natural lookout is opened before you to contemplate the valleys of the Zumeta and Segura rivers, and the union of both.

In front of the Loma are the Cañás de la Muela, where there is a large colony of leonado vulture, as well as the Iberian village of the Peñón de los Almendros, the village of Góntar... You're in a magical area worth discovering.

We suggest...

• If you get to Miller's Boards after you have made a good route, where you have known villages like Miller, the Coke's Calar or the Eguijones' Cave, you certainly need to get a good dip (only in summer, of course...).

• To know and remember the history of the following pineers who, until the 1950s of the 20th century, carried wood through the rivers, helped with hooks and shooting beasts.

• There is a great book for hiking in the area: Valleys of the Segura River and Zumeta. It describes with precision and deep knowledge a series of routes that you will certainly love.

It is reached through the road JF-7038 from the town of Santiago de la Espada after 22 km. From Segura de la Sierra we can also reach the road in the direction of Rio Madera - La Toba - Miller's Boards. This way the distance is 54 km. and a time of about 1 hour.

In the Garden are the different plant formations that, depending on the height and humidity, we can find naturally in the Park, such as the high mountain, the larix pineapples, the deciduous bosquets or the riverside forests. There is a space dedicated to the exclusive species of the Park (endemisms), such as the Cazorla violet.

We suggest...

• Any season is good for visiting the Garden, but in autumn the deciduous trees are dressed in yellow and in spring you can see the flowers of some endemic plants.
• Attention should be paid to the activities organized by the Garden, such as photography workshops, medicinal plants or plant dyes. There are also activities for children. They are free and have a remarkable quality. You can call or subscribe to your mailing list.
• Torre del Vinagre is one of the most strategic places in the Park, which has two Visitors' Centres and the beginning of the emblematic route of the Borosa. It can be worth using a whole day.

The Arroyo del Vidrio divides the Garden into two, and passing through a wooden bridge with eastern air, we reach a natural area where we can know the plants integrated into their natural habitat, some of them in danger of extinction. This part has a circular path around the channel, where, in addition to vegetables, more than forty species of birds can be observed, as well as squirrels and amphibians. This ravine is the ideal framework to begin to contemplate in situ the particular contrast of the area, from a lookout located at the highest part of the tour.

The slope of the right margin, in umbria, is occupied by a pineapple pineapple (Pinus nigra ssp. salzmanii). In front, in the dolomitic herring where the parking is located, the black pine (Pinus pinaster) is the only tree able to overcome the presence of magnesium on the ground. Next, in the rocky carasol, the carrasco pine (Pinus halepensis), the most characteristic Mediterranean pinacea of arid areas, dwells on very permeable substrates, where drought becomes extreme. The fact that the three native pine species of this Natural Park naturally coexist in such a small space, deletes the special ecological characteristics of this area.

We suggest...

• The Botanical Garden of El Hornico, marked as the Collection of Autotonous Plants in the public-use organization chart of the Natural Park, is currently managed by the municipality of Pozo Alcón and is only open to the public in times of maximum tourist influx. For an organized and scheduled visit it is best to contact the municipal tourist information point (Tfno. 953 739 005)

• Next to the botanist is the El Hornico Nature Hall, which develops environmental education activities within the garden and in its nearby environment. It is an ideal place to organize school and group activities.

The Botanical Garden of the Hornico is 9 km from Pozo Alcón and 17 km from Hinojares. From Pozo Alcón you have to take the A-326, up the Avenida de la Bolera, direction to Castril. By passing the campsite de la Bolera and the km 7, we take a detour that comes to our left and that borders the Forest House of la Bolera (it is marked as an entrance to El Hornico). On an unasphalt road, 2 km later, we take another turn to the left, after passing a bridge, which leads us to the park of the Garden a few meters later.

Since 2013 the Association of the Cultural Garden of the Cora, has had the institutional recognition and the transfer of the land by unanimous agreement of all the political groups of the City of Jódar.

Everything in the Garden of Cora has a why, a story that goes unnoticed in the eyes of the visitor. It is necessary to decipher the meaning of each component or inhabitant of this space in order to understand the true value of what the walls of this old school, which despite not being occupied by children's laughter and games, remain synonymous with life and the future.

Thanks to the work of the members of the Echo Cultural Association of the Garden of Cora, here is a real laboratory activity; the recovery and conservation of local seeds - or other sources - at risk of extinction as well as the cultivation of specimens from other areas of the planet that are considered especially interesting based on the climatic conditions of the area.

Tranco road A-319, in the surroundings of the Tranco reservoir.

That historic day will play an important role, as the heat attached to the scarcity of the liquid element for the French troops would be a key factor in defeating the Galo army, which in the last moments of the struggle would despair to reach the desired place where to satisfy the unbearable thirst. The popular tradition tells us that many of these soldiers will be thrown into the river of the San Lazaro Garden, the only place near with water, with the following phrase "To die here and resurrect in Paris."