Boni's Windmill
Hilltop farmstead of a sixteenth-century stone windmill, chapels, oven and wine press turned open-air museum.
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This guide to Boni's Windmill in Mykonos walks the hilltop farmstead above town, from the tiny chapels built on private vows to Saint Antonios and Saint Nicholaos, to the Venetian-built mill that once caught the Meltemi wind. It follows miller George Bonis, who worked its sails until 1962, and traces how a working farm of oven, wine press and threshing floor became the Folklore Museum of Mykonos. You'll hear about the September feast still kept here, with its harvest songs and grape-crushing underfoot. Look for the small offerings still left beside the chapel door.
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