Greek island PATMOS: 18th century WINDMILLS working again #travel #greekislands

Hello guys, this is Vick. Welcome to my channel and thank you for viewing my videos. Today I'm in Greece and I'm visiting one of the most beautiful of the Greek islands. I'm visiting the island of Patmos here in the Aegean Sea. Patmos is part of the Dodecanese group of islands in Greece. In this particular video we're going to visit the reconstructed windmills that you see here built on top of a hill overlooking the beautiful capital of Patmos that you can see there in the far distance, the town of Skala. These windmills were constructed originally in 1760 in order to make flour out of wheat. Sometime in the second half of the 20th century they stopped operating and they were in ruins until 2010 when the locals here decided to reconstruct them faithfully according to the original design. This is what you see here. They sit on top of a very very windy hill. It's windy up here 360 days of the year. In this particular video we're going to go back a few hours earlier this morning when the windmills were actually, when they were working. We're going to get beautiful views of how they worked in the area all around us. So this is Vek. Let's go for a wonderful tour of these magnificent structures, the windmills of Patmos. Let's do it. And here is an absolutely beautiful view of the three windmills. We're very very fortunate because two of them are working today. You can see the sails. They're spinning. What a beautiful view from up here. Let's go closer. Look at this. Beautiful image isn't it? I was not expecting to see the windmills working today. But we're not complaining. Let's admire the views of these beautiful structures. They can be seen from miles and miles away as you approach Patmos, as you approach the harbor at Skala, the main town of Patmos. It is always very very windy up here and of course this is why the windmills were built here. There you go. Beautiful views of the second one spinning. It is extremely windy up here. You can probably hear the wind noise on the microphone of the camera but ignore that. Just enjoy the beautiful views. And that's Skala down there. Oh my god it is so windy out there. Now we're going to get a chance to go inside one of the windmills and actually go all the way to the top. Come on, let's do it. And here is another beautiful view of the first two windmills. Both of them spinning at the same time. What a beautiful view. Now we're going to get a chance to go inside this one and go to the top. Come on, let's do it. Okay, I am inside the windmill. As you can see it's not a very large structure. The diameter is about five meters. That's where the flour will be collected at. And to my right there are stone steps that we can take and go up to the top. Come on. Carefully. Very very tight space up here. And basically the way it would work in here you would drop the wheat which would slide down to that center over there. That's the big wheel with the gears that would spin from the action of the wind. The wind would rotate this axle here which in turn will rotate the wheel with the gears. That would rotate this device here which in turn would rotate a very large round stone in this case in here. So as the wheat would drop in it would turn into flour from the action of the large stone rubbing against another stone. And that's how it works. And right below this device there's a way for the flour to drop into the small cabinet that you saw on the ground floor. Now this one is not spinning today because it's not working and this is why we're allowed to come up here. If this was spinning nobody would be allowed to get up here. This wall was redone in 2010. All three windmills. And I must say congratulations to the city of Hora and Skala and the island of Patmos for spending the money to redo the windmills. They're very very popular. I had to wait in order to get up here. And what a shame for the island of Eos that has 12 of these and they're all ruined and destroyed. And here's our very last view of this magnificent fascinating structures here in Patmos just a few hours before sunset. And they look absolutely stunning here on top of the hill overlooking Skala. This is Vik. Thank you for joining me all the way from Patmos, one of the most beautiful of the Greek islands. Bye-bye.