Sint-Janshuismolen
Working eighteenth-century post mill still grinding grain on the city's green ramparts.
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This guide to Sint-Janshuismolen in Bruges opens with a code hiding in plain sight: for centuries, millers across Flanders set a windmill's sails at specific angles to announce grief or celebration to the whole street. It follows that custom into the present, with a Belgian miller who set his own sails to the mourning position this past August after losing someone close to him, and back into the mill's own past, standing on this rampart since the 1300s and rebuilt in its current timber form in 1770. Before you climb the stair, look up and see what the sails are saying today.
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