The oldest and most detailed cartographic map, the Carta Tipografica della Magnifica Comunità e Valle di Andora (1785) and the subsequent map of the French Cadastre (early 19th century) show clear evidence of the presence of some buildings that have been identified and described as windmills . These are buildings with a circular plan, located on the tops of the ridges, six of which are on the east side of the Merula Valley along the border with the territories of Laigueglia and Alassio: a first windmill was located near the ancient oratory from Sant' Antonio del Cavo (now Aeronautical Base - Radar of Capo Mele, at the current hairpin bend between Strada delle Catene and Via Cornice del Capo); then there was the Tagliaferro mill, a ruin, with incomplete remains of walls and no roof, which can be visited following a path that leads to Colla Micheri. So there were the two “Spaleta mills”: one has disappeared while the other has been completely restructured and integrated into a modern dwelling. in innervinciano ALiO di Pilato": one has been restored, the other is fairly well preserved (both cannot be visited as they are privately owned). The Tagliaferro mill or the Casalin mill, of all the Andor mills that exist today have survived, it is the one in the most strategic position in terms of coastal positioning: this specific location would entail a particularity that emerges from the French cadastre of Maones, where this settlement is referred to as "Tower", with reference to Republican documents Genoa, in which it is sometimes precisely referred to as a watchtower against corsair and pirate raids.It has a cylindrical shape and in the remains of the wall structures one can see an access portal to the ground floor and two openings a and aligned in favor of the more frequent ventilation, one of which is the Access portal itself overlaid There are no presences or evidence of pre-existence of mezzanines or roofs, leading to the assumption that there are no walls above. From the Mulino Tagliaferro we descend to the characteristic village of Colla Micheri, crossed by the ancient AUguSta roads of the Romans: it is intact in its medieval character thanks to the Mirao conservation measures carried out by the famous ethnologist who wrote so much about the Conservation of its typicality and beauty.
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