ROOM 3

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Room 3 includes a panel on the qualities of Lanjarón’s waters, an interactive relief model of the surrounding mountains, and a short video. The model helps make sense of the water’s journey.

Lanjarón cannot be understood by looking only at the town. The springs and fountains begin in the mountains, in the landscapes of Sierra Nevada—the great massif that shapes this area.

Sierra Nevada stretches from east to west and, at its highest point, reaches 3,479 metres at Mulhacén, the highest peak in mainland Spain. Beyond the figures, that height means cold air, snow for part of the year, and above all a vast natural reserve of water—stored not in tanks, but held in soil, rock and the layers beneath our feet.

The relief model shows high peaks, deep valleys and steep slopes. Across the range, ancient ice once carved distinctive forms—such as bowl-shaped glacial cirques and sharp ridges. The terms are less important than the idea: the mountain carries the marks of the past, and those forms guide the water’s path.

In winter, snow gathers. When temperatures rise, meltwater feeds small streams. Water runs down gullies, sometimes disappears into the earth, filters through slowly, and then returns where it is least expected. It is a long, patient journey.

Around Lanjarón the relief is gentler than in the heart of the range, but it still includes high ground and deep ravines. That is where the essential process happens: rain and snowmelt spread, infiltrate, and reappear—sometimes as a stream, sometimes as an acequia, sometimes as a spring.

Seen this way, it is almost a daily miracle. The mountain gathers, the earth filters, and the town makes use of it. Everything presented in the earlier rooms—the Capuchina, the spa, the bottling plant, the acequias—are not separate stories, but chapters of the same journey. The water poured at a fountain has already travelled through an entire landscape: altitude, rock and time.

The video provides images to accompany that idea: water in the heights, water in motion, water in everyday life. It closes the visit with a simple thought: in Lanjarón, water is not only something to drink; it is something to care for and to share.

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