{"id":4030,"date":"2009-10-21T19:18:02","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T17:18:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2018-10-05T10:19:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T08:19:11","slug":"qmolinsq-windmills-and-watermills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.masmallorca.es\/en\/local-produce\/qmolinsq-windmills-and-watermills.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Molins&#8221; Windmills and watermills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4009 size-full\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin: 0px 20px; float: right;\" title=\"Windmills and watermills, Mallorca\" src=\"https:\/\/www.masmallorca.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/molins-de-mallorca_1.jpg\" alt=\"Windmills and watermills, Mallorca\" width=\"150\" height=\"89\" \/>Windmills and watermills were all over the island. Nowadays they have lost their original function, but they are of great value as heritage, having witnessed the economic, social and cultural past of Majorca.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4014 size-full\" style=\"margin: 10px 20px 10px 0px; float: left;\" title=\"Windmills and watermills, Mallorca\" src=\"https:\/\/www.masmallorca.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/molins-de-mallorca_2.jpg\" alt=\"Windmills and watermills, Mallorca\" width=\"250\" height=\"267\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>On Majorca they were used to grind flour (flour grinding windmills) and to extract water from the subsoil (water extraction windmills).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4019 size-full\" style=\"margin: 10px 0px 10px 20px; float: right;\" title=\"Windmills and watermills, Mallorca\" src=\"https:\/\/www.masmallorca.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/molins-de-mallorca_3.jpg\" alt=\"Windmills and watermills, Mallorca\" width=\"248\" height=\"168\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>\nThe former have been documented since the Christian conquest (1229) and the latter have been introduced more recently.<\/p>\n<p>The first watermill built in Majorca goes back to the year 1845 and it was used by Dutch engineer Bouvij for the drainage of \u201cPla de Sant Jordi\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4024\" style=\"margin: 10px 0px; float: left;\" title=\"Windmills and watermills, Mallorca\" src=\"https:\/\/www.masmallorca.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/molins-de-mallorca_4.jpg\" alt=\"Windmills and watermills, Mallorca\" width=\"940\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.masmallorca.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/molins-de-mallorca_4.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.masmallorca.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/molins-de-mallorca_4-300x100.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windmills and watermills were all over the island. 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