The Moulin Mattei is a tower mill in Ersa, Haute-Corse on Corsica. [1] It is situated at the northwest end of the Cap Corse peninsula between the village of Botticella and Centuri. [2] It is placed on the Col de la Serra [3] which has a height of 365 meters and it is open to tourists.
It was built at the end of the 18th century and had the name Moulin Franceschi. It was hit by lightning in 1836 and did not function anymore afterwards. [3] The windmill was bought by the Mattei family from Bastia (descendants of Louis Napoléon Mattei from Ersa) to make it possible to make their apéritif Cap Corse. The windmill was completely renovated in April 2004. [2] [3]
The Moulin de la Galette is a windmill and associated businesses situated near the top of the district of Montmartre in Paris. Since the 17th century the windmill has been known for more than just its milling capabilities. Nineteenth-century owners and millers, the Debray family, made a brown bread, galette, which became popular and thus the name of the windmill and its businesses, which have included a famous guinguette and restaurant. In the 19th century, Le Moulin de la Galette represented diversion for Parisians seeking entertainment, a glass of wine and bread made from flour ground by the windmill. Artists, such as Renoir, van Gogh, and Pissarro have immortalized Le Moulin de la Galette; likely the most notable was Renoir's festive painting, Bal du moulin de la Galette.
A tower mill is a type of vertical windmill consisting of a brick or stone tower, on which sits a wooden 'cap' or roof, which can rotate to bring the sails into the wind.
The arrondissement of Bastia is an arrondissement of France in the Haute-Corse department in the territorial collectivity of Corsica. It has 27 communes. Its population is 87,776 (2016), and its area is 473.8 km2 (182.9 sq mi).
Ersa is a commune of the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica.
Giraglia is a French island at the northern tip of Corsica in the Mediterranean Sea, known for its powerful lighthouse and for the Torra di Giraglia, a Genoese tower, both of which are official historical monuments of France.
Cap Corse, a geographical area of Corsica, is a 40 kilometres (25 mi) long peninsula located at the northern tip of the island. At the base of it is the second largest city in Corsica, Bastia. Cap Corse is also a Communauté de communes comprising 18 communes. The area of the Communauté de communes is 305.7 km2, and its population was 6,706 in 2019.
"The Windmills of Your Mind" is a song with music by French composer Michel Legrand and English lyrics written by American lyricists Alan and Marilyn Bergman. French lyrics, under the title "Les Moulins de mon cœur", were written by Eddy Marnay.
Templeuve-en-Pévèle is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.
Rogliano is a commune in the French department of Haute-Corse, Corsica.
Barbaggio is a commune in the French department of Haute-Corse on the island of Corsica. It is known for its wine, its scenery, and the prehistoric site of Strette.
Jersey has had a number of windmills over the centuries. They were mostly corn mills, and about half of those built survive in one form or another.
The Canton of Cap Corse is an administrative division of the French department of Haute-Corse, Corsica. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in San-Martino-di-Lota.
Erbalunga or Erbalonga is an ancient fishing village on Cap Corse, in the municipality of Brando in the French department of Haute-Corse, Corsica. The village of Erbalonga is the most northerly coastal settlement of Cap Corse, with vertiginous roads and sloping maquis beyond.
Femu a Corsica is a Corsican autonomist political party. It was formed for the first time prior to the 2010 French regional elections in the form of a political coalition. The coalition members, Inseme per a Corsica, the Party of the Corsican Nation (PNC) and Chjama Naziunale, merged during the founding congress of the party in Corte on 15 October 2017. The PUDEMU movement also merged into the new party. The PNC was later re-established in 2019. The leader of the party is Gilles Simeoni.
Xavier Mattei is a French zoologist; his research was mainly in the field of sperm ultrastructure, including fish and a variety of invertebrates such as flatworms and acanthocephalans.
Alte Voce is a Corsican group, who sing Corsican music in the Corsican language.
The Abatesco is a French coastal river which flows through the Haute-Corse department and empties into the Tyrrhenian Sea.
The Acqua Tignese is a stream in the Haute-Corse department of the Corsica region that has its mouth north of Cap Corse, in the Ligurian Sea.
The Poggiolo is a small coastal stream in the department of Haute-Corse, Corsica, France. It enters the Tyrrhenian Sea from the east of the Cap Corse peninsula.
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