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Flour mills of the Guadarrama River

Los Molinos, Cuenca del Guadarrama, Madrid

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Flour mills of the Guadarrama River

Curiosity · Los Molinos, Cuenca del Guadarrama, Madrid

Image of Los Molinos, not of the place itself.

The village owes its name to the river's water-powered mills: a licence of 1546 authorised Álvaro de Mena to build a penstock mill, and at least three mills supplied flour to the works on the monastery of El Escorial.

Photo: Arturo Francisco Barbero (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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