Flour Windmills

Nothing identifies the image of Vejer more than the silhouette of a windmill. In the 19th century, the flour mills that existed in Vejer were all water mills, among which the ones owned by the Duke in the hamlet of Santa Lucía stand out. It was with the advent of the liberal regime when the first windmills were built in the town of Vejer. After a long tradition of water mills, the construction of windmills began. It was not the first time that the "Manchego" windmills were tried to be more efficient but the strong winds in the area made it impossible to implement them. The success came with the implementation of the "Carthaginian" windmills, which had a more robust body than the "Manchego" windmills, so that they were more resistant to the strong winds and were also more powerful than the watermills. In the sixties seven mills were built, five of them located in the San Miguel neighborhood, currently Hazas de la Suerte Municipal Park, of which three have been preserved and are now restored (San José, San Francisco, San Antonio). We leave the Hazas de la Suerte Municipal Park towards Buenavista Avenue and the military road to see the four remaining mills located on the west side of Vejer: Molino de Morillo, we continue along Miramundo Street and soon we arrive at the Molino de Márquez, Molino de San Inés or Molino del Conde and Molino de la Cruz de Conil. Currently you can visit (on request) the interior of the San Francisco Mill where you can see the pieces of its old machinery.