Historical landmark
Windmills Bodrum
Eskiçeşme Mh, Haremtan Sk. No:10, 48400 Bodrum/Muğla
Row of stone-towered windmills on a ridge, whitewashed with wooden sails, once used to grind grain into flour.
This guide to the Bodrum windmills covers the row of stone towers built on this ridge in the seventeen hundreds, when farmers with no coal or fast river turned to steady Aegean wind to grind the peninsula's wheat and barley into flour. It explains why the mills were sited and angled with such precision, and what that meant for a family's income if the builders got it even slightly wrong. It closes on the diesel engines that eventually stopped the sails, and what the surviving seven towers do with that same wind today.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.