Guided tour of the windmills of Vassieux-en-Vercors

Name: Visite guidée des moulins à vent de Vassieux-en-Vercors
Start: 2023-09-16T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T16:00:00+02:00
Location: Moulins à vent de la Mure

Go on site for a guided tour of the Mure mills, the last mills still in elevation in the Northern Alps. When were they built, under what circumstances, up to qua…

16 et 17 septembre 2023Passé

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Go on site for a guided tour of the mills of the Mure, the last mills still in elevation in the Northern Alps. When were they built, under what circumstances, until when did they function, what is the restoration project, etc.

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Moulins à vent de la Mure

114 La Mûre, 26420 Vassieux-en-Vercors

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Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

The towers of the windmill, located on a calcareous mound in 1100 m by height in the place - said Walls It up catch look when they arrive on the village of Vassieux. View(Sight), splendid, kisses(embraces) all valley of Vassieux and chaine of Grand Veymont. The wind blows there a lot of the year, of the North or of the South at an average speed from 5 to 6 m / second: the place lends itself therefore particularly well to the setting-up(presence) of windmills. The mill dating of 1751, presents a tower of 7.75 m of diameter, still rising to 6 m of height, and its practically undamaged external facing. Such as they appear as is, the tours(towers,ballots) of the Blackberry establish(constitute) the last windmills still kept(preserved) in elevation in the Alps of the North and in mountain environment(middle). In that capacity, they establish(constitute) exceptional monuments of the heritage of the Regional Nature park of Vercors and the Region Rhône-Alpes. (A.Belmont)