The 20th of October, the Minister for the Environment the Government of Cantabria, Francisco Martin, opened in The Ventorrilo (Fisheries) Visitor Center 'Roads flour ', managed by the Center for Environmental Research (CIMA) and has received an investment of nearly one million euros.
Construction of the new Visitor Centre has been rated by the director as "an exercise of responsibility in the great tradition linked to Cantabria flour", as among its objectives is to disseminate and evaluate territorial heritage corridor built in Besaya bread since the second half of the eighteenth century.
addition, the new Fisheries Centre aims to recover and maintain knowledge Besaya Valley as a seat of communication routes since ancient times.
The opening of the Visitor Center is attended by the mayors of Fisheries, Miguel Angel Simón, Reinosa, José Miguel Barrio; Molledo, Teresa Montero Guriezo, Felipe Garma; Santiurde Toranzo María del Mar Mugica, and Campoo Enmedio, Gaudencio Carmelo children, among other authorities, as the CEO of CIMA, Luisa Pérez and several town of Pesquera. He has also attended the dean of the College of Industrial Engineers Cantabria, Pedro Hernández Cruz, college has been active in the installation of the old mill machinery, and Spaniard Pedro Sobrado painter, a resident of Fisheries.
The Visitors Center is located in the old flour mill 'La Montañesa' , which used the river as it passes through Besaya Fisheries as a driving force. Visitors can learn about the process of preparing the meal as it was in that factory from the 20 to 60 of the last century.
The center offers an overview and detailed clean processes, grinding and sifting they were subjected to wheat grains until and processed into flour, were placed in sacks and stored prior to transport. The public can learn about the process through three distinct spaces, such as the turbine hall, that of clean and sifting, and grinding. The engine room of the factory hydraulic summarizes the history of the site. Clean room and sifting machinery exposes restored as well as images and historical maps of this unique equipment. Finally, the visit ends with a visit to the sifting and grinding room, which illustrates the evolution of technology from flour mills to modern craft flour mills.
The newly opened Center for Fisheries allowed visits on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 10:00 to 17:00. In this way adds to the Visitor Centres Network of CIMA formed by the Ebro River (Fontibre), Embalse del Ebro (Corconte), Monte Hijedo (Riopanero), Dry Stone (La Puente del Valle) and the Cantabria Astronomical Observatory (La Lora).
Thanks to its privileged location, those who come to the Visitors Center 'Flour Road' can also enjoy a number of routes and paths. Fisheries in the environment are the most significant ways and best documented of Cantabria, as well as historical paths that the remains. Visitors can make walking paths as the 'Avenue of the Conchas' (Somaconcha - Pie Shell), the 'Camino Real de la Hoz de Bárcena' (Gorgollón - Bárcena de Pie de Concha), or routes between Pie de Concha y Montabliz, Rioseco and Pagüenzo, or fisheries, Aguayo and Santiurde. And in need of car, other interesting routes through the region are "The Cruise of the road '(from Caneda to Las Caldas Besaya) and the' flour mills Besaya '(from the Visitor Center area to Santiago Cartes).
Sources:
http://www.medioambientecantabria.com/noticias/ampliar.php?Id_contenido=62141&Id_tipo=1
http://www.medioambientecantabria.es/CentrosdeVisitantes/ampliar.php? Id_contenido = 61623 & tab = 1
http://www.medioambientecantabria.es/CentrosdeVisitantes/ampliar.php? Id_contenido = 61623 & tab = 1
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