Teacher… last miller

Maybe the next two or three months, the millstones of the first flour-mill… in the “Γκαλόπαπα” of Spili in Rethymno, to come back! Finally, then, will be won, and the bet laid down by the municipal Authority three years ago with the time (see here), and a traditional function of the settlement which served the needs of thousands of residents from the region and elsewhere, to revive, albeit for other purposes.
But every year, from 2013 onwards, in the years of memoranda, the contractor delivering the project, but every time you take a new postponement and the delivery of “go for the new year”. This time, of course, the donkeys will carry the sacks of grain to the grinding mill, as was the case in hard times, but the flour will come to the homes to make dough housewives and roast them in ovens to make bread. Anyway, stopped by decades to… smoke!

Tropical landscape that… embraces the old flour mills. The water in the creek runs plenty and nonstop
But in a hurry by the municipal agents of the Holy Kingdom to bring the last miller who survives, Antonis Λουκάκη who arrived in the 90 years, to come back with the πιτήδεια regular and with the water from the λιγάτο, millstones and wheat give flour (see here). Want, the master of the watermill to deliver, even the last of the lessons, to those who will take responsibility for the work again…
THE NEW STREETS OUT
“The next street of Spili, after the square of the “Κεφαλοβρύσης” which is the most attraction of the κωμόπολής, I believe, will be the mills”, expresses the certainty of the president of the local community Dimitris Papadakis. The view is reinforced by the fact that the heavenly landscape and the μνημειακοί λαογραφικοί spaces of a traditional craft that was moving with the water, will cause the keen interest of foreign and local visitors, who are looking for the history of each place through the daily life of the people of the society…

The president of the local community Dimitris Papadakis hopes that this year after the deferrals will function one of the two mills
Mr. Papadakis expresses his faith, in accordance with the commitments of the contractor, that “the project of restoration of two old grain mill and the configuration of the surrounding space, so that it is visitable and able to work on one of the two, will be completed by the start of the new tourist season”. Already, in this period carried out the latest work in the surrounding area, to identify points that have high natural value, but were hidden and the depreciation of…
DESIGNATION
“The future of κωμόπολής us, I believe, is and the mills, which remained unspent since it closed, definitively, the door to the first mill, the last miller. Now, Spili is included in international tourist guides as an interesting destination and the municipality is attempting to highlight the important elements. And there is our interest,” concludes the local president.

Image of the second watermill, the “μεσακού”, as it sounded and prevailed
In the winter months… a tour of Spili lived in solitude and in a particular model of life! As soon as the weather “warmed”, the professionals of the square, slowly began to… ανασκουμπώνονται making their preparations to welcome you at the end of March the first tourists who will inaugurate the new season. They hope that “this year things will be better than last year…”
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