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Kola Windmill
Constructed in the eighteenth century by the Fondazione
Manoel, under the government of the Order of St. John
that anticipated that the windmills would be given in
leasing and so they will animate and maintain the local
industry. The miller was an expert craftsman, quite often
trained in an ample range of abilities. So, apart from
maintaining in operation the windmill, it has many other
secondary works.
When the conditions of the wind favored the operation
of the mill, the miller sounded a snail shell, known as
Bronja that indicated to the inhabitants its intention
so that these brought their wheat to be processed and
became flour.
This windmill has many owners until the beginning of the
twentieth century, when the Grech family take control
of it. The last member of the family was Nikola or Kola
from where the mill took its name.
In the mill it’s possible to take a look at the
tools created by the family for the maintenance of the
mill, as well as seen in operation one of the few surviving
units of the industrial inheritance of the eighteenth
century in the Maltese islands.
Xaghra
Gozo
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