GOOD ACTIONS FROM OUR STUDENTS: " GET TO KNOW OUR LOCAL NATURAL ENVIRONMENT "

Early in the autumn, still looking like summer, students started the many outdoor activities that are carried out throughout the school year.

The photos show our younger students enjoying a walk in one of the paths around the city. It is an area full of streams and water springs.

They started their walk by the remainings of the Roman water main. Nowadays, It is a cistern or water tank with two spouts, with its current construction dating back from the XVIIIth century.

Then they passed under an iron bridge that was opened to traffic on the 5th of September, 1873, in the late Industrial Revolution. They also strolled, most of the time, by a couple of streams: Pedroches, which is the main one, and Barrrionuevo, a tributary.

The banks of both streams make up a lush riverside forest, in which a great variety of vegetation -tress and bush- can be found: elm, poplar, arbutus, acorn tree, locust tree, hackberry, holm oak, fig tree, kermes oak, pine tree or hawthorn. An abandoned olive grove is not far from the path, too.

At the highest part of the path, our students had the opportunity to see an old quarry that was last mined in the late 1980s as well as a huge old country house -Los Velascos property-, with a well-kept threshing floor, where formerly farmers used to separate the grain from the cereal plant.