{"id":990001,"date":"2022-02-28T16:48:14","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T16:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/formotor.developallin.com\/mill-route-through-the-heart-of-formentera\/"},"modified":"2022-02-28T16:48:14","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T16:48:14","slug":"mill-route-through-the-heart-of-formentera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formotor.com\/en\/blog\/mill-route-through-the-heart-of-formentera\/","title":{"rendered":"Mill route through the heart of Formentera"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3>Formentera\u2019s landscape would not be the same without its mills; these architectural elements tell an important part of the island\u2019s history, essential as they were for the life and subsistence of the inhabitants in the past.<\/h3>\n<h3>There is so much more to our beloved island Formentera than lighthouses!<\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h2>The history of the mills of Formentera<\/h2>\nThe mills and their presence in Formentera tell us what the population&#8217;s basic food product was: wheat, the cereal used to make bread. The mills we now enjoy sightseeing were necessary to grind the wheat into flour.\n\nThey were called blood mills, since they used animals to drive the grinding wheel. The oldest ones to be small, near the house; later on, in the eighteenth century bigger mills that used wind to move the wheel were built; these mills also permitted greater production.\n<h2>Visit the mills of Formentera<\/h2>\nThere were seven windmills used to grind the grain, all with the same mechanism and the same type of construction built around a cylindrical tower, six blades and a conical roof, all divided into three floors: the upper one where the gears were located, the central one where the flour was obtained and the ground floor that was used as a warehouse.\n\nToday we can enjoy six of those seven mills, since the Mol\u00ed d&#8217;en Simon in Es Cap de Barbaria disappeared:\n\nIn La Mola we find the Mol\u00ed Vell and the Mol\u00ed d&#8217;en Botigues, near Sant Ferran we can see the Mol\u00ed d&#8217;en Teuet and the Mol\u00ed de ses Roques and to the west of the church of Sant Francesc we have the Mol\u00ed d&#8217;en Mateu and the Mol\u00ed d&#8217;en Jeroni.\n\nIf you don&#8217;t have time to see them all and you have to choose only one, we recommend the <a href=\"http:\/\/Mill route through the heart of Formentera\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mol\u00ed Vell<\/a>, which means old mill; built in 1778, it is one of the last mills on the island to be in use; and the best preserved one. It\u2019s interior has been restored and it is possible to visit it at certain times of the year to see how it works.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Formentera\u2019s landscape would not be the same without its mills; these architectural elements tell an important part of the island\u2019s history, essential as they were for the life and subsistence of the inhabitants in the past. There is so much more to our beloved island Formentera than lighthouses! The history of the mills of Formentera [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":989772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[211,206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-routes-by-car","category-routes-by-moto"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/formotor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/formotor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/formotor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/formotor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/formotor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/formotor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/formotor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/989772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/formotor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/formotor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/formotor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}