Location: To the north-east of the city centre, very close to it and at the limits of the Natural Park of Cazorla, Segura and Las Villas.

Distance: 3 km.

Medium: On foot.

Access route: By a road that leaves directly from the city centre towards Los Rinnes.

It is actually a wide rectangle, divided into three floors in height and with an airful turret-view on the east side - or left side. Very common typology in Granada, especially in the neighborhoods of San Jerónimo, San Matías and la Magdalena. Although, unlike here, it does not present a porticated and blasphemed courtyard in its centralizer, which leads us to think that it would not in its origin be a foundation of a family - more or less aristocratic - for its particular residence, so we suspect it would have another purpose.

The same similarity with the granadine is also given from a constructive point of view. Thus, if brick is used for the wall walls, for the structural elements, jambas, dintels and frontons, the quarry is used - in this case the asperon so abundant in the place - and the latter are the elements that define it from the stylistic point of view.

As a result, we are facing an interesting example of a typical house of the full baroque - the second half of the XVII-, where there is still a very strong presence of the elements of Mudejar tradition, the façade being very well resolved, because of its interior only highlights the dome on the pechines that originally topped the staircase.

On the first floor, whose cover of the apainelated arch does not appear by focusing the set, its beautiful intellized windows, crowned by beautiful curved and broken fronts, stand out. In the second, the most noble, the rhythms are changed, as they are small intellized windows with the same type of front, except that located on the door which is a large balcony framed by a beautiful alfice, also being in both bodies of a high quality the grate. Finally, a large, flying cornice separates them from the last with a proliferation of semicircular windows.

A number of hypotheses have been set aside on the promoters of its construction. At some times we thought it might be the great plateau that the first Marquis de la Rambla ordered to raise in the town, from which we even have several works payments. However, by some documents it seems to be deduced that it was built by the albaceas and employers of the foundation created by Mother Martha of Jesus - the so-called Almagro House - from the place - to also use it as a table to house travellers and carriages, which with their income would help to cover the expenses of the Hospital of Mercy.

It is the oldest and largest house in the town, sent to build in the year 1,760. It was used as a house of the Carrillera and the posio, where food was stored to distribute to the people in the years of scarcity and drought.

It was also believed that the inquisition was established there because his shield was on the facade, but after successive studies the researchers concluded that the Court of the Inquisition was in another house and that only one member of it lived there. This house, other ancient people and the Church, are united by underground tunnels that come out of its wells and lead to the outskirts of the village.

A small hermitage, which at the time made the school, brings to our head memories of past times. Its position allows it to have a privileged view over the nearby mountains, which you can know more in depth if you do the circular path of the Yelmo Chico, the PR-A 150 that part of the Capellania.

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.