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Top 10 Windmills in Mexico
From colonial haciendas to the windpumps of the northern deserts, Mexico's ten most rewarding historic windmill and mill sites to seek out.
Top 10 Windmills in Iceland
Iceland is one of the windiest countries on Earth, yet built almost no windmills — here are the rare survivors, ruins and mill sites worth knowing.
Top 10 Windmills in Lithuania
From the Samogitian uplands to the Curonian coast, Lithuania's ten most rewarding historic windmills and mill museums to seek out.
Top 10 Windmills in Latvia
From the Baltic coast to the Latgale lakelands, Latvia's ten most rewarding historic windmills and mill museums to seek out.
Read more →Top 10 Windmills in Slovenia
Slovenia is watermill and tidal-mill country, but its coast, Karst and Pannonian east hold a handful of wind and mill sites worth seeking out.
Read more →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.
Read more →Top 10 Windmills in Czechia
From Moravian Wallachia to the Haná plain, the ten most rewarding historic windmills to visit in the Czech Republic.
Read more →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.
Read more →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.
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