An ancient water mill no longer in operation. This is what the Molini di Sopra are, whose name appears in various written testimonies, which certainly attest to their existence as early as 1000 AD. This structure played a central role in the local economy, at least until the second post-war period, and fed the city’s first embryonic electricity grid system. The architectural complex consists of two buildings, which face each other, of which the main one, running alongside the canal that diverts the course of the Muson Vecchio river, takes the shape of an “L”. Among the buildings, there is an ancient well, in which water is still present. As evidence of the milling activity, we find a series of elements. First of all, the stone of San Marco, placed on the wall of the building, indicates the maximum level of the Muson river that the miller. Secondly, it is still possible to see a module of the old grate, whose function was to filter and hinder the passage of all those materials that could have damaged the hydraulic mechanisms of the mill. Finally, two Francis-type turbines probably used first to move the mechanisms of the mill and then for the production of hydroelectric energy until the last closure of the activity. Finally, the Molini di Sopra complex houses a seventeenth-century bridge that supports the locks and offers a unique perspective on the surrounding landscape: on one side the Muson river arriving at the mills, characterized by a typically fluvial environment and kept natural; on the other side, the Molini di Sopra basin surrounded by the trees of the municipal park of Mirano.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categoria-pois":[],"class_list":["post-12483","punto-interesse-fera","type-punto-interesse-fera","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n