Córdoba
The Alegría Mill stands on the city bank of the Guadalquivir just downstream from the San Rafael Bridge, at an old weir known as the Azuda de la Alhadra. The…
The Alegría Mill stands on the city bank of the Guadalquivir just downstream from the San Rafael Bridge, at an old weir known as the Azuda de la Alhadra. The mill has Andalusi origins and passed to the diocese of Córdoba from 1272. In 1780 Antonio Luque bought the ruins and built the Molino de la Alegría on them, and two brick storeys were added in the nineteenth century. In 1910 it became a flour factory with a turbine, and from 1928 it worked as a power station. Since 2002 it has housed the Roberto Wagner Paleobotany Museum, the first museum of its kind in Spain, which shows fossil plants and the history of plant life, and it forms part of the Royal Botanic Garden of Córdoba.