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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.
A Windmill Tour of Karpathos: The Restored Mills of Olymbos
Explore the restored row of stone windmills above Olymbos on Karpathos, one of the Aegean's most striking windmill landscapes.
A Windmill Tour of Santorini: Cycladic Sails Above the Caldera
Along Santorini's caldera rim, a handful of whitewashed stone windmills recall an age when the meltemi wind, not diesel or electricity, ground the island's grain.
A Windmill Tour of Madeira and Porto Santo
A look at the modest, wind-battered mills that dot the volcanic ridges of Madeira and Porto Santo.
Read more →A Windmill Tour of the Azores
The Azores hide a quiet windmill tradition shaped by volcanic stone, corn farming, and some of the strongest winds in the Atlantic.
Read more →A Windmill Tour of Drenthe: The Corn Mills of the Netherlands' Sandy Northeast
Drenthe's corn mills have ground rye and buckwheat on the Netherlands' sandy northeastern plateau for centuries, and many still turn today.
Read more →A Windmill Tour of Utrecht Province
Discover how Utrecht province's windmills shaped its rivers, cities and peat meadows, and where you can still see them turn today.
Read more →A Windmill Tour of Overijssel
A tour through the windmills of the Dutch province of Overijssel, from town ramparts to peat lakes and farmland.
Read more →A Windmill Tour of South Holland
From Kinderdijk's famous rows of windmills to the quiet canals beyond, South Holland tells the story of a country that pumped its own land dry.
Read more →A Windmill Tour of North Holland
A journey through the polder mills and industrial windmills that shaped North Holland's landscape and economy.
Read more →A Windmill Tour of the Frisian Islands
Along the Wadden Sea archipelago, surviving windmills tell the story of isolated island communities that had to grind their own grain, often against the wind that also threatened to tear the mills apart.
Read more →A Windmill Tour of Skåne: Mills on Sweden's Southern Plains
Flat, fertile and famously windy, Skåne is Sweden's great windmill province — a landscape where the mill is still called a mölla and dozens of survivors dot the plains.
Read more →A Windmill Tour of Danish Zealand
Follow the sails across Denmark's largest island, from the smock mill at the Kastellet in Copenhagen to village mills deep in the Zealand countryside.
Read more →A Windmill Tour of Funen: Denmark's Island of Mills and Orchards
Discover how windmills once powered daily life across Funen, Denmark's fertile island between Zealand and Jutland.
Read more →A Windmill Tour of Mecklenburg: Post Mills, Dutch Smock Mills and the Town of Windmills
Flat grain country, Baltic winds and a remarkable density of surviving mills make Mecklenburg one of Germany's most rewarding windmill regions.
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