Sendero Local ´Molino Altero´ de Trevélez
The local short walk ´Molino Altero´ is number four of the nineteen walks in the guide ´Senderos Locales de la Alpujarra´. It is a short stroll of two kilometres to the river, which could be a nice walk to do with children. The starting point where you find an information panel on the route, is at the square of the Barrio Medio. On here it says that you leave the village next to the polideportive or sports ground. To get there – this is not explained - you go right to pass the town hall and the bar-restaurant of La Fragua. Continue straight on into Calle Posada, passing La Fragua II. At the end of this street you bear left and this is where you find the first wooden waypost. From this point on you can follow the green-and-white waymarks to the river where you find the ruin of the flour mill. Information on this Molino Altero is hard to find. On the website of the ADR it is exlpained that after a thunderstorm in the sixties of the twentieth century, it got almost completely buried by all the water and stones that came down from the Barranco Peñabón. From this point we see to the right the Cerro de Peñabón, one of the many attractive aspects of this pleasant short walk. You return to the village on a broad track that leads you back to the church square. You need to be aware that the starting point and the returning point are not the same. If you want to make this walk longer, you could follow the Camino del Horcajo at the left bank of the Río Trevélez and continue on the small path parallel to the river.
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