Los Molino's (The Windmills)
Looking Over Javea, Situated in Cabo de San Antonio (San Antonio Cape).
The eleven mills one of which are in the grounds of Garimba, were built in the XVIII Century to mill local wheat. Their location was perfect to use the winds in the area due to the height of the cape. The mills stopped working around 1911.
The oldest known reference to the mills of La Plana is a XVI-Century document which mentions one of these mills belonging to San Jeronimo, which dated to the XIV Century. However, according to local investigations the remaining mills are from the XVIII Century.
The basic structure is typically composed of a ground floor used as a warehouse, and a first floor supported by a vault, where the millstones stood. The building would have had a conical roof, possibly made of wood to keep the elements at bay.
The early construction of these buildings (before the famous windmills of Castilla-La Mancha and Don Quixote) indicates a possible connection with those built in the Balearic Islands.
From this connection we can deduce that these windmills, like those in the Balearics, would have most properly have had six arms. Today, without their sails, they are a unique attraction of Jávea.
Looking Over Javea, Situated in Cabo de San Antonio (San Antonio Cape).
The eleven mills one of which are in the grounds of Garimba, were built in the XVIII Century to mill local wheat. Their location was perfect to use the winds in the area due to the height of the cape. The mills stopped working around 1911.
The oldest known reference to the mills of La Plana is a XVI-Century document which mentions one of these mills belonging to San Jeronimo, which dated to the XIV Century. However, according to local investigations the remaining mills are from the XVIII Century.
The basic structure is typically composed of a ground floor used as a warehouse, and a first floor supported by a vault, where the millstones stood. The building would have had a conical roof, possibly made of wood to keep the elements at bay.
The early construction of these buildings (before the famous windmills of Castilla-La Mancha and Don Quixote) indicates a possible connection with those built in the Balearic Islands.
From this connection we can deduce that these windmills, like those in the Balearics, would have most properly have had six arms. Today, without their sails, they are a unique attraction of Jávea.
