Alcubilla

Like an old, overnight “service station”, next to the Camino de San Lorenzo, the Alcubilla spring is in La Dehesa del Santo Cristo, the lungs of the town of Baños de la Encina. Here we find one of those cultural landscapes that give the sensation of eternal peacefulness; in fact, it is a thermal waters complex comprising a well (water for animals), reservoir (spring for people), spillways and their corresponding outlets made with lime mortar.

Above this place stands the “Huerto Miguelico”, a prototype of the cliffhanging vegetable gardens in La Dehesa del Santo Cristo, whose green terraces fight to attach plant life to the hillside. In general, the place was constituted as a water device that seems endemically tied to another time and other uses.

There are other beautiful specimens of this type of spring, typical of areas with a lot of seasonal water such as Sierra Morena mountains, in the town, such as the Alcubilla del Salcedo or the Fuente Cayetana, with possible Roman origins.