Orbetello Windmill

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In the period around 1650, Orbetello was preparing a defense also at the top of her small western peninsula, where the "sea port", once called "the Mill": it was just a guard, as was here allowed a comfortable berth from the lagoon, elsewhere impossible for a fence that, under water, surrounding the city. But it is likely that the small garrison of this guard had the task of monitoring and if necessary defend the nine mills, arranged in a line, and located in the pond, made sure the food needs, if not the whole state, surely the city.
It was Mills who, about the middle of the seventeenth century, "the grind wheat with half of the wind and sails, as of then, but an artifice and a mercy game of the same waters of the pond" (Ademollo), ie exploiting the movement of water determined by the tides.
The Ademollo is understood as the mills of Orbetello hydraulic machines were of considerable historic interest and more recently, in analogy with many wind mills installed in Greece and Spain, took advantage of the strength of the winds, and then were fitted with blades sailing, in our case 5 oriented south-east and four Mistral, in ancient times took advantage of the tides, the ebb and flow that is periodic and constant of sea water (particularly sensitive in the lake of Orbetello) every six hours, from the pillow Giannella, near the Tower of Peschiera, entering and leaving the pond, causing a hydraulic phenomenon of vast proportions.
Evidently, both to deal with the production of wheat, both for the product to the subjects of the State (including soldiers), and Siena from the time domain, the people of Orbetello placed online nine mills in order to exploit regular and ongoing movement of the currents.
It 'was only one of nine mills above, recently restored.

Source:
Historical evolution of the settlements with monitoring of characteristic buildings - Orbetello