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.

Its cover that coincides with the central ship is raised vertically with an intellized door that is preceded by a few steps, and, on it, on the same axis, a stylized window with a half-point arch. It also presents another circular window also highlighted with respect to the wall, and, closing on top of the main facade, a small stone cross, which marks the central axis. It is above the tower, with a square base, located on the right of our view, with three bodies separated by two strands and reinforced corners, and in the bell tower, large gaps with half-point arches and four-water tiles. To visit: time of worship.

The church, beginning in 1534, is the first great church built by Vandelvira and from here he left two years later to Ubeda where Francis of the Cobos had commissioned him to perform the Sacred Chapel of El Salvador. The church was completed during the 18th century although the shrimp of the Christ of the Veracruz dates from the 18th century.

In the lightness of the domes and in their composition, elements are intuited that will be present in their most representative architectural element, the vanish dome. The paintings that cover the domes of the central ship date from 1575, the work of Pedro Raxis representing scenes of the Old Testament and the Passion of Christ.

We can imagine Vandelvira and his assistants during the first years of the construction of this church, large wooden scaffolding, the noise of the quarries, piles of stone to be turned into armchairs and the caleros selling lime for the argamase. Without a doubt, the most curious image should be the perplexity of the elderly, seeing such thin pillars on the sides of a great central ship, nothing to do with the churches of the area, or the recite Sanctuary of the Virgin of Fuensanta, in the nearby Villanueva of the Archbishop.

Thanks to this father's work, we know many things about the College of the Society of Jesus in Segura de la Sierra. The buildings that are preserved today in Segura de la Sierra are the result of one of its neighbours' efforts to make a religious foundation. His name was Cristóbal Rodríguez de Moya and, in the face of his wife's death, he understood that he would have a problem with his heritage of not marrying one of his three daughters. By choosing his daughters for religious life, he founded a College.

To observe the interior of the Church of the Jesuits is not to do so in the key of the history of art or to analyze the restoration that the building has suffered, it is to have a vision of society from the end of the 16th century to approach its fears and a religiosity that permeated all aspects of life, of fear of the devil or to die in sin. An approach to daily life in a small mountain community, with the poor of solemnity to which the Society of Jesus attended with its pastoral missions.

In short, it is about knowing one more episode of the history of the end of the 16th century in Segura, the plague of 1596, the famine of 1605, the charity, the fears and poverty of a large part of the population and the collective sadness of the death of Francisca de Avilés, the last daughter of Cristóbal Rodríguez de Moya. To mentally recite the passage of this woman's death puts the hairs at the top, with a mass attended by all the people and even the Franciscans of Santa María de la Peña, of Orcera, to give the last farewell to the foundress.