CONSUEGRA 18-04-15
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 2.32 mi
- Elevation gain
- 358 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Easy
- Elevation loss
- 358 ft
- Max elevation
- 2,703 ft
- TrailRank
-
47
5
- Min elevation
- 2,301 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Time
- one hour 29 minutes
- Coordinates
- 320
- Uploaded
- April 20, 2015
- Recorded
- April 2015
near Consuegra, Castilla-La Mancha (España)
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Consuegra is famous due to its windmills. They became famous in the 16th century, when Don Quixote was first published. The introduction of the windmills was made by "Caballeros Sanjuanistas", who brought these machines that helped millers. These machines used the wind to grind grain (the most common grain is wheat). The windmills were transmitted from fathers to sons. They usually consisted of two rooms or levels. Millers had to carry sacks of grains that could weigh 60 or 70 kilos to the top floor, they rotated the sails of the windmill as the top PART of the windmill or dome was movable. They stopped being used at the beginning of the 1980s.
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Preciosa ruta!!!! Gracias por compartir!!