Mulini ad acqua della Valle del Celone di Faeto

Along the course of the Celone River once stood about twenty of these artifacts; now the best preserved is called Piscero Mill.

The operation at the base of the ancient mills was essentially based on the force generated by the water of the river channeled into a storage tank. When this was filled the water with force fell on the wooden blades of the horizontal driving wheel activating it. This in turn generated the movement of the millstones. The grain slowly descended into the hole on the upper millstone, where by the effect of centrifugal force it was ground and turned into flour.

The mills of these places had the particularity to use a horizontal and not vertical drive wheel as is commonly used to see.