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Roda de Isábena

Roda de Isábena is a village in the Ribagorza region of Huesca province. It is on the A-1605 from Graus over Capella to Bonansa and the N-260. As it is a must see destination for tourists in the region, you should find it on any map.
From the public parking lot walk to the highest point of the village where you'll find the exhibition of the equipment of the mill against the wall of the cloister of the cathedral.

Pictures: 14.x.2021

(1) left to right: torno, and beams, vírgenes and guiaderas, of the cantilever press.

(2) left to right: torno, vírgenes, decantation vessels, guiaderas, and quintal.

More complete and better preserved oil presses of this type, can be seen in Aguinalíu, Panillo.

(3) Vírgenes: main beams at the head of the press.
(4) Guiaderas: beams holding the lever in place.

(5) Decantation vessels.

(6) Regaifa: drains the oil into the vessels.

(7) Torno: where the olives are ground into a paste ready for the press.

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