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Ancient Windmill of Montebonello

Ancient Windmill of Montebonello

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Ancient Windmill of Montebonello

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Location: Pontassieve, Florence, Tuscany, Italy

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1. View of Florence from Fiesole – View of Florence loop from Firenze Campo di Marte

71.4km

05:12

1,440m

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2. Lungarno Cycle Path – Arno Riverside Cycle Path loop from Firenze Campo di Marte

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02:53

490m

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3. Pontassieve – Bridge Over the Sieve loop from Rufina

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02:54

710m

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Marco1971

March 27, 2021

Windmill built in the early 19th century, restored and made functional in the 2000s. Unfortunately, a wind storm damaged it in 2015 and it has not been able to be seen in operation since then.

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JakobusPilger

April 16, 2024

Nowadays, they are often just monuments to a long tradition of craftsmanship: the heavy millstones were moved using only the power of the wind as the driving force and, for example, grain was ground into flour (grain mills) or oil was pressed from olives (oil mills).
But the writer Miguel de CERVANTES (1547 to 1616) also created a literary monument to the technical monument of the mills: the most famous figure of the author, who is considered Spain's national poet and whose work can certainly be valued as world literature: "Don QUIXOTE", also known as the "Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance" and always accompanied by his loyal squire Sancho Panza, fights a - of course hopeless - battle against windmills in one of the fictional stories, in which he believes he recognizes four-armed giants.

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Enrico Guida MTB

June 25, 2020

Ancient windmill. Possibility of refreshment

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Elevation 410 m

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Location: Pontassieve, Florence, Tuscany, Italy

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Ancient Windmill of Montebonello

1. View of Florence from Fiesole – View of Florence loop from Firenze Campo di Marte

2. Lungarno Cycle Path – Arno Riverside Cycle Path loop from Firenze Campo di Marte

3. Pontassieve – Bridge Over the Sieve loop from Rufina

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