From the road you will find a road that goes down to the reservoir dam, where the vision is even more spectacular, with the impressive Pico Morrión standing out at the bottom.

This area of the Park represents better than any of the world of mountain villages: landscape, culture, gastronomy, odors, colors, life forms that when we come from the city we find unreal; as if it were not possible to live integrated into nature, living from the resources it provides but without damaging it.

Around the reservoir there are villages held in the time that each of them offers you different delicacies: the bread and the cakes of Tobos made in a historic wood oven, or the magnificent Vites spirit with which to make delicious artisanal liquors such as the pachan or the mistela.

We suggest...

• Eating in the surroundings of the reservoir: Segureño lamb, slaughter viandas or any serrano dish will be safe of your liking.

• Visit some of the villages near the reservoir, such as Marchena, La Muela or Miller.

This reservoir is located halfway between the town of Santiago de la Espada and the village of the Miller Boards, on the local road JF-7038, at the height of the village of Morrión.

The morphology of the land also tells us of the thousands of years in which water has been the artisan hand that has built the landscape. As we go down this road, the oak and pine trees make way for lush riverside forests.

Among the options we propose to you:

Km 0.Santiago de la Sword. Located at 1350 m of altitude, its main economic activity is extensive livestock. It has the parish church of Santiago Apostle (16th century), built on an earlier hermitage dedicated to the same saint and which has a beautiful major altarpiece of Baroque style. In the square of the City Hall we find an old 16th century inn with a vistose wooden balconade.

Km 10.Mirador del Salto de la Nova or del Zumeta; 10 km from Santiago we find on the right hand side this mirador from which we see the limit of the Park and the province of Jaén. Watch out for hats, they can fly a long way.

Km 12.Tobos village. Compulsory stop to buy good bread and delicious cakes. Next to the road there is a simple laundry room that circulates the Tobos stream, with fresh and clean waters.

Km 13.Vites village. To get to the village of Vites you have to turn left and drive 2 km. In this village are raised magnificent white grapes, large and sweet, from which a powerful spirit is distilled. Ask the local neighbors.

Prado Moro.At the end of the village of Vites a left road ascends to Prado Moro. Here a centenary oak resists at the time that gives us a vision of the vegetation that in the past existed in the area.

Km 16.Embalse de la Vieja. A prominent peak called the Morrison announces the beginning of the Old Age reservoir. After the village of Morrión, a lane - not marked - goes down on the left to the reservoir.

Km 18.The Vadico. Two km from the reservoir there are houses on the right side of the road with a wall in front. Right across the street we found a way up to the Vadico. It's a nice walk, by a real vergel, which deserves to be made on foot. On the way there are sources to be able to refresh and collect water.

Km 18.5.Entrance to the villages of La Muela, Marchena and Marchenica. The Muela is 5.4 km from this point. In its vicinity is Hoya Somera, an important archaeological site of the bronze age. Later on there are Marchena and Marchenica. In its surroundings, there were Roman remains and an Arab necropolis.

Km 22.Miller's together. At this point the Zumeta River has come with us all the way and the Segura. A natural stone tunnel announces the arrival at this meeting place.

Miller village.From Las Juntas there is another road that reaches this historic village with more than 20 water births. It is a starting point for several routes that will make us known beautiful areas of the Sierra de Segura. When you pass the stone tunnel you have to follow the indication "Central and Miller."

PRACTICAL PARTICULARS

Distance:From Santiago to the Miller Boards there are 22 km away, by a mountain road. The route is extended if we enter the villages and recommended points.

Home:Santiago de la Sword village to which you can reach the A-317. The route is developed by the JF-7038 road

The route is 45 km. It begins in the farm of the Borosa and ends in the Hornos de Segura. It is recommended at least one full day. There are many tourist accommodation on the route.

Km 0 - Piscifactory and River Borosa River Interpreting Center. In this Centre we will know the importance of water and river ecosystems in the Natural Park, in which emblematic species such as the common trout and the otter stand out.

Km 1,7 - Vinagre Tower. This area is one of the most crowded in the Park and is located in a geographically privileged area for its centrality. Here it is essential to know the Park Visitors Center, which has been recently modernized and has various interactive resources. It has a Natural Park Store, toilets, cafe, rest room and children's play area on the outside. Very close to this center is the Botanical Garden, a pleasant place with a wide and careful selection of natural park plants, from small herbaceas to large trees. It is a perfect place to observe and learn to distinguish them or simply to take a pleasant walk between lush vegetation.

Km 6.5 - Coto Ríos. This village, on the banks of the Guadalquivir, was built in the 1960s of last century to house families living in scattered villages and cortijos and whose houses were expropriated to create the National Cazorla-Segura Hunting Coto (now the Andaluza de Caza Reserve). It has medical assistance, shops and other services, in addition to several campsites.

Km 13.3 - Wild Fauna Park Collado del Almond. In their enclosure they pasture in semi-freedom deer, mountain goats, wos and muflons. You can see them and photograph them by walking a pleasant itinerary with fountains, banks and several viewpoints with splendid views of the Tranco reservoir and the ruins of the castle of Bujaraiza.

Km 14 - FRF look. It is one of the milestones of the Route of the same name, dedicated to the mythical naturalist Felix Rodríguez de la Fuente, who from this point of view filmed the famous scenes of the berrea of the deer in the 1970s. In front of it is Mount Bujaraiza, which sometimes, when the reservoir is very full, becomes an island, and is crowned by the ruins of an Arab turret.

Km 17.6 - Old-garden controlled area. This place is very nice to eat and rest, except on the dates you are occupied by some camp.

Km 19.2 - House of Crafts Los Casares. It is an old Forest House converted into a shop of crafts and products from the Park.

Km 26 - Old Control Recreative Area. It is a large and recently built area with magnificent views over the northern part of the Tranco reservoir. It has banks, tables to eat and fountain.

Km 28.4 Tranco Dam - This impressive dam, whose height on the Guadalquivir channel is 82 meters, is one of the largest in Spain. In its surroundings there are several restaurants, terraces and water sports facilities, as well as the village that was raised for the workers who built the dam.

Km 31.5 - The Parral Recreative Area. It is in the middle of the carrasco pine pinar and has a look-out with good views over the waters of the Tranco reservoir.

Km 35.7 - Cñada Morales. When it reaches this village the landscape is opened and no longer exclusively forest, to give way to large humanized areas with olive groves, orchards and scattered cortijos.

Km 44.6 - Safe Furnaces. This small town, built on the top of a peñasco, is in the center of the Natural Park. Its monuments, views and irregular alleys of the Arab past, served him the declaration of Artistic Historical Set.

We will find numerous cortijos, some standing and others in ruins, faithful examples of popular architecture. As we advance our journey, we are shown forests of majestic pine trees, authentic sabinars, dense riverside forests in the streams and centuries-old examples of oak trees and complaints.

ROTOMETER:

Km 0.0. Departure.In the square of the Constitution of Hinojares (x = 500190; and = 4174475), at the height of the Fountain of the Frogs, we put the CK at 0.0 and we left the village upwards, on the street of the Church, towards the road of Tícar (A-6206).

Km 1.5 Cross of the Tranco de la Zorra (x = 501180; and = 4175910).In the stop we put the CK at 0.0 and turn left.

Km 1,1. Cuenca cross (x = 501825, and = 4175910).We left the main road, to turn right.

Km 3.7. Cuenca (x = 502725; and = 4176830).We park the car in the Consultorio, to visit the Birth of Seven Fuentes and the village; to reach the remains of the fortress and medieval village of the Castellones de Cuenca is complicated, but on the return to the main road, as we pass the last houses of the village, we can see the enclave on the other side of the ravine. When we reach the A-6206, in the stop we put the CK at 0.0 and turn right.

Km 10.2. Belerda Cross (x = 498490; and = 4180130).We're still on the front, direction Quesada. Another option is to turn left to visit The Casillas of Don Pedro and Las Belerdas and return back to this point, where we will follow left; the next point is 0.3 km.

Km 10.5. Entry into the Water Cave (x = 498220; and = 4180260).We turn left; 300 m away are the parking and access to a great open oquedad, crossed by the Arroyo de Tiscar, proposed as a Natural Monument; on leaving to the main road we turn left, to visit the Sanctuary and Castle of Peña Negra. We return to the A-6206, direction Quesada and to the entrance of the Vadillo Road (x = 498015; and = 4180895) we put the CK at 0.0.

Km. 4.8. Port of Tiscar (x = 496675; and = 4182345).We left the car in a space that we found on the right of the road, to go up, taking a walk, to the Atalaya del Infante Don Enrique (13th century) that is enabled as a lookout; behind the tower, the Picón del Rayal (1,834 m.), in the form of a colossal wave; "rayal" was synonymous with "border" in the Reconquista.

Km. 13.5. Quesada (x = 494160; and = 4188735).Here we can visit the Arc of the Saints, the Arc of the Maquita of Utrera, the remains of the Arab Alcazaba, the two churches and the Museum of Rafael Zabaleta.

The look at La Morra de Los Canalizos (km 31) has tables to eat. A little further we found the crosses to Hornos el Viejo and La Plantera. It is highly advisable to turn around this last village, with its scattered population and large oaks, and even down to the Tranco reservoir, to take a relaxing walk along its margin.

In the impressive Mirabuenos lookout (km 35) the views change quite a lot: from the humanized landscape of the previous lookout, with extensive olive areas and numerous cortijos and villages, we go to the vast panoramic high mountain, where the large forests dominate.

The view of Las Huelguecillas (km 36), which has tables to eat, is on an extensive promontory, and thanks to its situation as a small "peninsula" aerial we enjoy a very wide panoramic in all directions.

The Pradillos lookout (km) is the last and has a special charm for being at 1,340 m of altitude. This section of the A-317 ends when it stops climbing. You'll find a crossing and you'll have two options. If you keep going, you'll go to Pontoons and the birth of the Segura. You will find a livestock landscape, with very clear views. If you choose to turn left, you will enter a more forest landscape. You can complete your route in a circular way by returning to the Hornos de Segura on the roads of La Suma and la Garganta (A-317a).

Among the options we propose to you:

Km 0. Caraway. The best way to enjoy Cazorla is to get lost in the streets of the old town and to discover some of its wonders, but on this occasion we propose some forced visits: the Plaza de Santa María, the Castle of the Yedra and some churches such as that of the Carmen or San Francisco of Renaissance style.

Km 1.5. The Iruela.Here we propose to stop you again, leave the car by the road and walk up one of the steep streets that lead to the castle that was owned by the Templars. From above you will have a beautiful view of the Guadalquivir depression. Next to the castle you can also visit the Church of Santo Domingo - and know the details of its foundation and history. Back in the car you will enjoy slimmed streets full of flowers that cheer the view.

Km 12. Air Pass lookout.We go up the road that leads us to the Natural Park and to say goodbye to the countryside, nothing better than to stop at this Mirador and enjoy its views. From here we change villages, castles and olive trees to valleys, rivers and mountains.

Km 13. Viewer of the Port of the Doves (1200 m).The landscape changes dramatically. You will find a great panoramic view of the Alto Valle del Guadalquivir, surrounded by beautiful mountains, including the Poyos de la Mesa on the right, unmistakable by its steep cliffs. It is also a good point to observe rapacious birds such as the royal eagle or the leonate vulture.

Km 16. Valley splash.In fact, the Valley Empalme is not a stop but a crossroads. We can turn left and descend to Cold Arroyo, but at this point we will follow the right-hand option following the JF-7092 road that leads us to the Utrero Clock.

Km 19.5. Closed from the Utrel. 3.5 Km from the Empalme del Valle you can reach a bridge over the Guadalquivir River. At this point we have to leave the car. Here begins a circular route of approximately 45 minutes that we will walk. It is a charming walk next to a Guadalquivir that is going to fit in and that later receives the surprise from the air of the stream of Linarejos. Impossible.

Km 23. Valley splash.Back to the road crossing we now continue on the right, following the A-319 road towards Cold Arroyo.

Km 30. Cold Arroyo.At this point in the road we can visit the Ethnographic Museum of Arts and Customs of the Natural Park. Cold Arroyo is also a good place to take something or make some unexpected purchase.

Km 33. Tejina Recreative Area.A stop on the way to rest, relax and eat outdoors if that's your choice.

Km 40. Vinagre Tower.This is certainly a strategic place within the Park because of it some of the routes that will take you to places as famous as the Cerrada de Elias or the Laguna de Valdeazores. At this point there are also a number of facilities that allow you to know the Park. You will find information about this extraordinary enclave in the area "Passeos por el Valle."

You can take advantage of this stretch of road to close a car circuit with the Miradores Route and the Hornos Grain road. If you want to walk, we recommend the public road that goes east in the direction of the village of Cabeza Gorda passing through the old forest house of the Fuente del Chorro, which passes through dense pine forests.

The name of the place is due to the presence of an ancient 15th-century monastery of the Order of the Augustine first, and after the Basilios, which is linked to the existence of these springs. With the deamortization of Mendizabal it went to agricultural uses, until today.
The water allowed the development of orchards in the area for centuries surrounded by olive trees, vineyards and cereals. This source today feeds several pools that serve for the irrigation of fruit, orchards and olive groves, as well as keeping a humid ecosystem in its surroundings. It is a historic birch of cattle flocks and wild fauna in the area.

This enclave is located just over 1 km away. of the city centre of Martos, at the foot of the road of Martos to Santiago de Calatrava. It occupies an extension of 84 hectares., with 5,394 centenary trees, some of them, true living sculptures. It is a fully productive olive tree with an average of 150 kg. By tree.