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46 / Le Moulin de Saint-Saturnin-les-Apt

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Location

The windmill, immortalized by Daudet, is one of the emblems Provencal landscape.

The mill of Saint-Saturnin-les-Apt, located on the windswept crest of the village is the only one of the four mills that were once common. Very well preserved, he tells us the time we tamed the wind to transform wheat. Dating from the seventeenth century, it functioned until the late nineteenth, dethroned by steam and electric mills.

We can see the slope of the roof particularly well adapted to the Mistral wind, wings, and the area tiled threshing and drying of wheat.



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