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de la serra de mariola - Parques Naturales - Generalitat Valenciana

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Miquel Vives i Miralles<br />

B<strong>la</strong>nes factory (Molino <strong>de</strong> Baix y <strong>de</strong> Dalt)<br />

chimney. In the beginning, in 1712, the building<br />

was <strong>de</strong>signed as a flour mill; <strong>la</strong>ter on, in 1810, it<br />

was converted into a paper mill (a full-scale factory<br />

complex, famous for its smoking paper)<br />

and finally -between 1855 and 1968- it was<br />

transformed for production in the textile sector.<br />

The track goes on in parallel to the river, through<br />

the pretty riverbank wood ma<strong>de</strong> up of pop<strong>la</strong>rs,<br />

willows, reeds and other species, accompanied by<br />

the flight of gol<strong>de</strong>n orioles, nightingales, robins<br />

and other birds which brighten up the way with<br />

their lively colours and pleasant song.<br />

2<br />

Head on upstream until you come to the series<br />

of factories in B<strong>la</strong>nes [point 2]: originally set up<br />

as flour mills (<strong>la</strong>ter 18th century) and turned<br />

B<strong>la</strong>nes chimney<br />

Núria Lara Bernàcer

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