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Open Air Water Power Museum

TIME : 2016/2/18 18:54:34

This excellent little museum is an entertaining romp through the region’s pre-industrial past. It occupies the old Agios Yiannis mill complex, 1.6km south of town (signposted), where a spring-fed stream once supplied power for a succession of mills spread down the hillside. The lush grounds are criss-crossed with channels alive with rushing water that power the fully operational fulling mill, flour mill and gunpowder mill, the latter having provided ammunition during the Greek War of Independence.