Galaropetra windmills at Fourni

North of Fourni village, Merambelo district, we still meet one of the most impressive windmill park of Crete. There are still standing 13 windmills in a row at location Galaropetra .

Others survive in good condition and others have collapsed. Fourni mills are of two types: the completely circular, turning to all winds, called Xetrocharis and the more usual that turns only in a certain wind, called Axetrocharis (this has rectangular shape).

In Fourni you will meet 12 Axetrocharis and only one Xetrocharis . Despite that, Axetrocharis were rarer because of their higher cost.

These mills were used for grinding grain.