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Gabasa – molino de Truco

Gabasa is situated east of Barbastro and Monzón. From each locations you can easily reach Azanúy, then Peralta de la Sal and then Gabasa. The Molino de Truco as the mill is named after its miller is only short walk away from the road. About half a kilometer before the grave­yard at the entrance of the village a service road leaves at the right. Walk this road down — general direction is south — and after less than a 1 km you'll be at the mill.
The site is interesting because of the enormous water storage (1). The mill proper is reduced to rubble.

Pictures: 15.xi.2008, 27.v.2023

molino de Truco molinos de Fuster

(1) Embalse built with big stones.

(2) Mill pond narrows to the half open pressure pit (cubo).

(3) Top half of the half open pressure pit.
Note that the stones are more reddish.
(4) Reservoir with mill (arrow) hidden below ivy.

(5) Stones from La Ferté — 2023

(6) The mill belonged to Casa Truco.

molino de Truco molinos de Fuster

 

Read more about this mill in:
● Baringo Jordán, Ernesto — 2018 — Molino hidráulicos: los antiguos molinos del Río Sosa —
Monzón; Cuadernos del CEHIMO №44; pp. 249-293; ISSN: 1133-3790
● Vanhercke L. & Anselin A. — 2023 — A la búsqueda de molinos. A Gabasa y el río Sosa —
el Gurrión viii.2023, № 172, p46-49; ISSN: 1130-4960 — Download PDF

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