They are conspicuous by their snow-white color, spherical shape with the customary pointed roof made of the finest variety of wood. In the good old days, they were wind operated as Mykonos is renowned for their gusty wind, which continues to blow even today.
The Wind Mills of Chora and the ones at Ano Mera were a great boon to the people of those localities and they were primarily used for grinding the agricultural produce that were meant to be transported to places outside Mykonos.
As of now, with the advent of modernity, the
windmills are no longer operational. But they continue to be a symbol of Mykonos’s rich virile past. Being hundred of years old, most of the windmills have been thoroughly renovated and some have even been converted into museums, the most famous being the Bonis Windmill.
Mykonos’s windmills are a living testimony of the island’s use of innovation when it came to tapping the enormous power of the wind to grind Mykonos’s agricultural produces.
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