"La Almazara", or Jaganta´s oilmill, is in the neighbourhood of the same name, belongs to the municipality of Las Parras de Castellote. You can go there by car from Las Parras or from the Santolea´s Reservoir (Castellote), for a track in good state that starts from the A-226 road.
The building where the oilmill is located, is a simple traditional construction of above, covered with a single slope, carried out with timbers, frame work of interwoven canes and tile. It presents two accesses to facilitate the entrance and exit of the animals loaded with the olive. In the main access, a small source with its pool was good to supply of water the oilmill.
Information:
Maestrazgo´s Cultural Park: 978-84-97-13
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The fundamental piece of the oilmill is "la prensa de libra",
as gigantic lever supported in a solid tower, visible from the exterior.
The lever was activated by a winch that lifted an enormous counterbalance,
squashing this way the esparto grass rush mats, with the olives paste,
previously crushed, that had been put in the other extreme.
The mill is completed with "la muela de sangre" so that the
olives were crushed previously and the systems of oil decanting. The machinery
added at the beginning of the XX century is also conserved.
This mill stopped working few years after the Civil War, beginning its
reconstruction by the years 1994-1995.
