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.

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.

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.

It was built on the primitive Mosque, documented by the Arab geographer Al-Himyari, which mentions that it was "three ships supported by marble columns."

His primitive advocation was that of Santa Maria, not knowing what the primitive building was, only that the Altar Mayor was oriented to the west and its main door to the north, next to the so-called "Source of the Place." The first documentary data on the works of the present temple dates back to 1547, bringing the stone from the quarry of Bedmar. In 1569 the Sunday Master of Uriarte worked on it. From 1582 to 1589 the work was carried out by Juan Vizcaino. In 1591, the Gaspar and Francisco de Aranda brothers were mentioned as builders and singers, building the central ship with their six side chapels with cassette vaults, so to the use of Vandelvira, who was the supervisor of the works of the temples of the Diocese. The whole set is of Renaissance-purist style.

In 1613 the construction of the Tower began, according to the trace of Juan de Aranda Salazar in a baroque style. Three shields belonging to the Bishops are carved in stone: Sancho Dávila, Cardinal Moscoso and Fernando Andrade, in the work of the Masters Francisco de Zamora, Alonso Galan, Andrés and Diego Guerrero, being completed in 1661 by Euphrassio López de Rojas, a shield of Sancho Dávila is found inside. One of its four bells is 1794.

In 1729 he repaired the header or Major Chapel by Juan de Consuegra. From 1771 to 1780 is built the current cruise, Capilla Mayor and dome of the Evangelists in neoclassical style with details of the rocky in the dome that was built by Pedro Fernández, Manuel and Juan Armenteros. In 1799, the pulpits and graderies were placed and the construction of the Main Fachada in neoclassical style was started by Manuel Caballero, who finished it, along with the choir in 1801. According to some historians, the façade is one of the best in the province because of its irous proportions. In 1864 the Capels of Expiration and Baptism were built. In 1877 the construction work of the Chapel of San José, directed by the architect Pedro Pascual Samaniego, with elegant orange half, was completed and decorated with interesting frescoes from 1915. From 1989 to 1992 the temple suffered a profound restoration by adding elements that further enhance its interior as several altarpieces in Macael marble and stone, the magnificent Reja and silery of the Chapel of San José, lighting, etc.

Little one was to be the early church for the Council to take the agreement of enlargement and to extend it, as stated in the Act of Cabildo of 11 November 1545: "Attend to the neçania that woes that the church and temple is enlarged and enlarged as the people who come to the dibines oficiços to the church do not take within it (...)." These works were not to solve the problems, and by 1564 the Council decided to build a new temple according to the traces of Andrés de Vandelvira, master of the factory of the Cathedral of Jaén and also director of the parish factories of the Diocese. The agreement is reflected in the Act of Cabildo of 6 January 1564: "Let another yglesia be built and fagged again that is wider and better, because the one that is now very narrow and partly working (...) will be built the new church where the best paresçiere to be made healthier (...) and will be traced by Andres de Vandelvira, master of works of this bishopric (...)."

Neither outside nor inside are structures kept in plain sight that remind us of the Vandelvirian architecture, in large part by the above-mentioned radical interventions practiced in the temple, which continued to preserve its primitive location. A more detailed analysis of its factory and an inspection of hidden areas provide us with certain architectural elements that can support the partition of Vandelvira in the works, case the remains of the run-in conserved between the deck or roof and the current vaults. It is to be thought that because of its unique disposition, exposed to the seasons and winds, that church suffered a serious setback in its original architecture, which, after strong restorations or modifications, was covert or integrated into which we currently contemplate.

In any case, certain works were completed in the temple in 1587: tower staircase, general enlucido, repairs on the roof. At the end of the 17th century, according to Professor Galera Andreu, Master Francisco Landeras made a modest swordsman, which is not the one currently preserved, because this is the result of the works of the 19th century. In 1837, according to the report of Juan Tuñón, master of public works of Baeza, it was necessary to strengthen the silery on the west side, to fix the corner on the midday side and to do the whole roof. Years later, specifically on January 26, 1860, Antonio López, a master of works at the Cathedral of Baeza, made another report, in which there is a need for a number of damage to the walls, soleras of the chorus ship, straps of the armor of the roof, roof of the sacristy; as far as the bell tower is concerned, he says: "The bell tower is necessary to do it again from its plant (...) by the construction of that bell tower that will have six and a half rods of width and nine and fourth of high (...) its cost is eleven thousand and two hundred reais."

The conditions are also inserted: that the bulk of the walls of the bell tower will be of rod and half a fourth in frame, and its brick and mixture factory. By 1866, the architect José María Cuenca, states that the building was in very poor condition, although some works had already been done. In 1876 there was a record of new payments for works (including the general encalado of the temple, the fees for the direction of the architect Vicente Serrano Salaberri, etc.), which amounted to 26,000 reais.

All these works, plus the necessary and continuous general maintenance, have determined their current configuration: a living room church with three ships, with vaults down the central and half canyon the sides. Special mention should be made of the arcosolinos of the 17th century that flank the presbytery, with simple classical altars crowned with the blasphons of the Sánchez Barrionuevo.

OTHER ARTISTICAL MANIFESTIONS

In the side chapels of the cruise, the shields of the Sánchez Barrionuevo (S. XVII) are kept on the plaster. The paintings of the disciplinant procession of the Christ of Veracruz are interesting. The most valuable piece is its mudejar baptismal pile, made of green glazed ceramic with a gothic inscription between sogued moulds, which is closely related to that of the church of Bartolomé de Jaén. The baptismal pile (1750), decorated with a threaded serpent, is interesting.

Also preservedan oil on canvaswith the iconography ofEcce Homoof the 17th century: a sitting Christ that responds to the baroque aesthetics of the dark, another 18th century oil of the Divine Pastor of popular theme and great chromatic contrast and of the 20th century, a wooden size of a Crucified, with careful anatomical study.