Batan Mill (Ocentejo)

Batán Mill

The Batán Mill, Today it is perfectly restored and preserved, thanks to being a popular construction that once supplied electricity to the population. Next to it, a quiet Tagus River and the remains of a stone bridge (probably Roman, as there is a Roman road nearby) that Napoleon's troops ordered to be blown up, thus cutting off the only existing passage between the villages of Ocentejo y Armallones.

The building consists of two masonry floors and has been transformed into a secondary residence. The owners have restored the working elements of the mill, collected a number of agricultural implements and landscaped the surroundings. It has a classic, cylindrical, high cube, which was fed with water from the stream on the left bank of which it is situated.

<< How to get there?

To get to this mill, which is located on the right bank of the Tagus River, a fact that sometimes causes flooding due to the river's swelling, you have to take the following route the track that leaves from the fountain in the village of Ocentejo in the direction of the Salinas de la Inesperada and the Hundido de Armallones. About 500 metres from the village it comes out by hand right another track We will take the road that leads to the mill after another half kilometre or so, and as we go down towards the river, but in the opposite direction to the Hundido, we will soon see this construction.