Greece - Lasithi

One of the few remaining windmills on the Lasithi Plateau, located on an altitude of more than 800 metres in the eastern part of Crete. The plateau was famous for its thousands of windmills with their typical white sails. As a matter of fact they were more wind-pumps, a local invention that have been used for two centuries to irrigate the land.

Despite their vast number in the past, most of them are not used any longer, but replaced by modern diesel and electrical pumps. However, there is renewed interest in the restoration of the windmills, which would bring back the picture of the Lasithi Plateau as it once was.