From Petimão to olive oil mill
One carried energy to Ramil's house.
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The municipal survey of 2 of March 2008 describes the mill of Casa do Ramil, in Alvite, fed by Levada do Vale do Moinho, with water removed from the riverside of Petimão. A granite cube led the water to the rotation. The building had two presses and the inventory recorded the deactivation in 2005. This portrait documents the connection between water, construction and transformation of the olive. It is a private property: the historical survey does not confirm public access nor the current state of the equipment.
Compare Covas, in Peio: then the inventory describes a wooden gutter. In both cases, it is important to follow the link between the levada and the mechanism, without imagining that all mills used the same solution.
Source and context
Municipality — inventory of olive oil mills, record L.A.1, withdrawal of 02/03/2008
Accessed: . Editorial summary; the date of consultation is not the date of the facts.