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A perfect place to take a break and take a cool photo.

A beautiful little village, but you'll have to climb some inclines to get here. Don't get confused, the windmills are not actually in this village!

How good it is to make a stop on a long route

The rest area is located right next to the hermitage of Santa Cruz and in a shady wooded area. From here you can enjoy good views of the Ebro and the vineyards that thrive around it.

Ventas Blancas is a village belonging to the municipality of Lagunilla del Jubera, in the province and autonomous community of La Rioja. The parish church of Santa Cruz, whose altar was restored in 2018, and also three hermitages are part of its cultural heritage. The hermitage of San Gregorio, from the 18th century, contains a Romanesque image of San Gregorio. Of the Visigothic hermitage of Santa María de Rute, only a semicircular arch and some walls remain. It dates from the 6th century and hardly had any decoration. In the 12th century it became a Cistercian monastery, adding some rooms, which were described in archaeological excavations carried out in the 1970s. The hermitage of Santa Juliana, located to the south of the village, is a humble construction with a gabled roof that is currently in a dilapidated state.

The story of that flour windmill begins on a hill near the town, where a thick curved stone wall had been found. Despite the fact that these constructions were not common in the area (the proximity of the Ebro was a source of motor energy important enough to rule out windmills), the nearby place name of Los Molinos allowed us to guess that, indeed, there was a mill in that place before. The restoration work, started in 2003, ended with the conservation of the original wall and the construction of a replica of the old 14th century mill.

Los Molinos de Ocón is a village located in the Ocón valley, in La Rioja. It belongs to the municipality of Ocón, which includes the municipalities of La Villa, Pipaona, Santa Lucía, Las Ruedas, Aldealobos and the unpopulated area of Oteruelo. Los Molinos is the seat of the town hall. Its cultural heritage includes the church of San Babil, from the 16th century, and the hermitage of Santa María de Velilla, from the 15th century. Other places of interest are the Fuente Grande, now used for the leisure and recreation of the residents, and which was formerly a meeting place for farmers and ranchers. There the irrigation shifts, the distribution of pastures, sidewalks, etc. were decided. The old laundry and the trujal (oil mill) are two other typical traditional constructions of the area.

Beautiful restored windmill. It's just a mill,... but it's worth it, ...since in La Rioja it's an exception.