Hydraulic mills are visible along the banks of different water courses, be they irrigation channels, streams or rivers and testify to the end of the cereal production cycle.
Moinhos (Penhas Altas/Lordelo)
Paredes
The mill house is normally divided into two floors, of square or rectangular plan, of sober construction in granite or shale, with few openings, a door and a shutter, this one, generally oriented towards the watercourse. The simplicity of the device simultaneously assumes a complexity manifested in the selection of raw materials and in the technological articulation of the different elements that compose it.
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