Pozo Nuevo

Arriving at the town of monuments Baños de la Encina, where the road to Linares meets the old livestock trail to Majadavieja, at a crossroads that used to be full of pedestrians and beside the ruins of the old shrine to San Marcos, we find the Pozo Nuevo.

It is a system with an ethnographic nature and almost historic flavour, as its parapet is formed by large stone slabs of Medieval origin whose abrasion narrates the everyday life of this town. The well, in a sedimentary funnel characterised by the presence of a granite wall that emerges from the original slate, receives a large part of the water that penetrates the subsoil in the upper part of the village. The inside of the Pozo Nuevo is made from large stones, porphyries from the granite wall located above the traditional vegetable garden called Lucero.

A place of continual transit long ago, it has the Jesús del Camino traditional olive oil factory nearby and an old olive-packaging company that, turned into a workshop and tower for the production of lead pellets, was the last one in operation in the Linares-La Carolina mining area.