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Ancient Windmill of Montebonello

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Ancient Windmill of Montebonello

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    1. Pontassieve – Chiesa di Santa Brigida loop from Pontassieve

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    Expert bike ride. Very good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels.

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    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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      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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        June 25, 2020

        Ancient windmill. Possibility of refreshment

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