Trail Molino del Batán

We will find traces of industrial facilities (batans or mills), of medieval origin, moved by the force of the running waters, a type of renewable energy that in the past was of the few available, and which is now revalued.

Continuing about a hundred and fifty meters along the JA-7.102 road, which has taken us to Miranda del Rey from the E-05 highway, we will find a road crossing that is where we start our path (see on the map). Here we will choose the track to the front, to the west, and we will walk without complications through a plain.

After six hundred meters we will cross the river of the Bañas, which is very close to that of the Noguera to form the Campana River. We will approach that second stream and walk on its left bank about seven hundred meters, northwest direction, until we reach the cortijo de la Noguera, which today became a school of nature. In four hundred meters we reach a hill in which there are two firewalls that serve as the limit of the Natural Park, where there is a barrier that we will have to cross while maintaining our course. The track is flanked by eucalyptus, which will later be replaced by pine trees, also of repopulation. The oak and other indigenous plants grow under these artificially introduced masses, as they are prepared to a particular reconquest. The road makes a uve to cross the stream of the Noguera, which we used to accompany, after which you reach a port with some cornoques around. From here, views are opened to the ravine of the Batan stream, to which we address, and the paths ahead of us can therefore be seen. We walk, in plural, because first we will go down the oblique slope to our right, next to the acequia of the Padilla Jump, until its derivation. The stream is covered by a riverside forest in which there are plenty of strawberries and alles that invite us to stop to enjoy its rich and ambient placid nature, from which is part a water birth with a curious anti-linear (convex folding) crowning it.

Between jaras and rosemos we will take the nine hundred meters to the crossing of the port, from where we will go back down, but now on the main road that is left, in a southwest direction. We are open to good views of the Calderon saw and the Star hill, to the north; and to the west the valley that forms the Dona Dama ravine and the Rope of the Stairs.

Our way, after crossing the waterfall again, runs in parallel to the stream, in which we can see the ruins of ancient mills, including the one that gives name to the path, the Batan Mill and another more flour built at the same time. In a little more than a kilometer of road, we will reach a sharp curve, after which we arrived at the bottom of the ravine where there is a water storage for the fire vehicles and a source, being this the end of the path.