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Gonies Windmill
Traditions · Rethymnon Prefecture

Gonies Windmill

Rating
5.0
century
XX
km · Anogeia
3.8
Anogeia
Gonies Windmill 2
Rare

Xetrocharis type windmill

20 nearbyHamoto Spiliari Cave, Chainospilios Cave at Kamaraki, Paliomylos watermill at Gonies

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Above the village Gonies we meet the beautiful windmill of Manousakis , built in 1904 for grinding grain. The restored mill, fully functional today, ceased its commercial operation in 1988, and it was impossible to overcome the technological development of the time.

The mill belongs to the rarest type of windmills in Crete. It is completely circular and turns along all wind directions and called the type of Xetrocharis .

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