Museum of Water and Mills
The museum, located in the Arab-Norman Castle of Castellammare del Golfo, was planned with the aim of documenting the results of the Aramis project and presenting to the public that vast pre-industrial heritage (infrastructures, buildings and machinery) consisting of irrigation systems. agricultural, networks of water channels from the Islamic era and water mills that were built in Europe by the Arabs, in the period of the Islamic invasion that goes from the ninth to the fifteenth century. The exhibition space consists of four rooms, each relating to a theme: "The Arabs and the Mediterranean", "The wheel and the millstone", "The water that does not sleep" and "The cycle of bread". (Source: itabc.cnr.it)
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