Museum Mill of Santa Ana

The Santa Ana Mill is the first known mill in the town of Valdepeñas de Jaén. It is a traditional flour mill of rodezno, which continues to operate as the first day since its construction in the sixteenth century, specifically on August 15, 1540.

Juanín LeClerque was the one who recovered the mill in 1540, one year after his arrival to the municipality, and he and the rest of his family members worked in the mill until 1904. After the conquest of Granada, the Sierra Sur began to be populated taking advantage of the
land where the Arabs had left canal systems and irrigation ditches. At the end of the 19th century there were numerous mills in the town, among them the Molino del Estanquillo, Fuente de los Chorros, Molinillo, Veredón and Chircales. In 1921 is when Jacinto Parra Martínez, a miller by profession, acquired the mill and from then on it became the property of the family, which continues to this day.

Today, the building houses a museum. The most interesting area of the mill is the one that houses the machinery. It is occupied by two cárcavos, hollows in the rock where the impellers rotate. Above the cárcavos is the milling room. You will also find the cleaning room, where you can see the machinery for cleaning and washing the wheat.