MENDEZ MILL
Flour mill founded in 1780 based on the friction of two stones, which were moved by the force of water. It is currently an ecological flour mill, which maintains the old infrastructure, adapted to electricity. It houses a museum on farm tools.
It could have been the bread mill next to the Puerta de Álora in the repartimientos period, around 1541, described as “molynode Garci Fernández Manrique, which adjoins the houses of Juan García del Viso and the Puerta de Alora”.
Located in this place due to the presence of the River, and/or Acequia de los Molinos, which came from the Albaicín, passing through Calle Mesones, Calle de los Molinos and finally joining the La Villa river, or Berenguel river. Infrastructure that irrigated orchards and moved the mills built in its path. Also associated with this river of the Mills, and probably in this street are named the Old Arab Baths and an old Mosque.
The building has a Mudejar doorway, made with large-format rough brick, following the popular renaissance style, such as the one located at the west side entrance of the Church of San Juan, following the Spanish-Muslim Andalusian tradition.
This type of cover can be seen in numerous houses in the town, most of them hidden under hundreds of layers of lime.
It is worth noting the rehabilitated one in C/ Cañuto, although the existing ones in C/ Antequera, C/ Mesones or C/ Santa María are also very attractive.