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Top 10 Windmills in Switzerland
Switzerland is watermill country, but a handful of windmills and great mill museums are worth seeking out across the cantons.
Top 10 Windmills in Czechia
From Moravian Wallachia to the Haná plain, the ten most rewarding historic windmills to visit in the Czech Republic.
Top 10 Windmills in Croatia
From the Adriatic islands to the Pannonian plain, Croatia's ten most rewarding historic windmills and mill sites to seek out.
Top 10 Windmills in Germany
From the Dutch-style gallery mills of the north to the Berlin city mills, Germany's ten most rewarding historic windmills to visit.
Read more →Top 10 Windmills in France
From the moulins of Provence to the cliff-top mills of Brittany, France's ten most rewarding historic windmills to seek out and visit.
Read more →Restoring a Derelict Windmill: A Case Study
How a ruined windmill is brought back to working order, step by step, from survey to first turn.
Read more →The Snuff and Spice Windmills of the Zaan
Long before steam engines existed, windmills in the Zaan region were industrial factories grinding tobacco, mustard, cocoa and spices.
Read more →The Fulling Mill and the Textile Trade: Finishing Wool with Water and Wind
Long before factories, wind and water fulling mills pounded raw woven wool into the dense, weatherproof cloth that built the medieval textile trade.
Read more →The Oil-Pressing Windmill: Crushing Seeds Instead of Grinding Grain
Long before steam power, windmills crushed and pressed oilseeds into oil for lamps, paint and food, a trade distinct from ordinary flour milling.
Read more →The National Mills Weekend Tradition: When Volunteers Turn the Sails
Once a year, ordinary volunteers unlock windmills across Britain and the Netherlands and set their sails turning for the public.
Read more →A Windmill Tour of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
From Bursledon's brick tower to Bembridge's timber smock mill, a tour through the surviving windmills and watermills of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
Read more →A Windmill Tour of the Cambridgeshire Fens
A look at the drainage windmills that turned England's marshy Fens into farmland, and the few that still stand.
Read more →A Windmill Tour of Tenerife: The Gofio Mills of the Canary Islands
Tenerife's stone windmills once ground toasted grain into gofio, the flour that has fed the Canary Islands for centuries.
Read more →A Windmill Tour of Crete
The Lasithi Plateau's white canvas sails are only the best-known chapter in a much longer Cretan story of wind, water, and grain.
Read more →A Windmill Tour of Provence
At Fontvieille the mill that inspired Alphonse Daudet's Lettres de mon moulin still turns its sails above the Provençal plain.
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