MOLINOS, HACIENDA LOS PRÍNCIPES

Villa de Los Realejos
- Patrimonio Industrial. Molinos -




On the grounds of the Hacienda de Los Pr ncipes, limited by the stone tapial that runs through the property, these mills of the 16th century are erected, which give their name to the road that runs alongside them. These are elements of great patrimonial interest, which still stand, but are very deteriorated. Its operation was produced thanks to the energy coming from the water, channeled from a pond that was located at a higher level, taking advantage of the level difference to generate the driving force that made possible the grinding of the gofio or the flour, a product of great importance, consumed as a fundamental food of the diet, in the few that food was scarce in the Canary Islands. Similarly, the infrastructures linked to the mill are of great interest, such as deposits, ditches, diversion lockers, the channels that lead the water to the trunk where the water that produced the movement of water accumulated. milling, old wooden pipes, as well as machinery.



Molinos, Hacienda Los Príncipes

It is a set of buildings, which have a traditional Canarian architecture, where the different bodies correspond to two mills, a small house, and some units attached to them. These are solved by stone and mud walls, which define the different volumes. In the case of the mills, they are topped by four-sided roofs with the traditional Arab roof tile, executed on a wooden structure of pair and row, the rest being covered with one and two waters, like the previous ones, with Arabic tile , with the exception of one of the units, possibly built afterwards which is equipped with a roof.

Next to the mill, located to the west of the complex, the bucket rises, a high-rise trunk prism, which reaches the channeled water from the pond located at a higher level, in the bucket is where the water accumulates, in whose At the base there is a hole called a horn, where it comes out under pressure that generates the driving force that makes the grinding of gofio or flour possible.



Molinos, Hacienda Los Príncipes

MUNICIPALITY Los Realejos

Low Realejo AREA

ADDRESS C / Los Molinos, 8

UTM COORDINATES

X 344344.93

And 3140716.54


BIC, Category of Historic Set, Decree 220/2005. BOC N 243 (12/14/2005).

BIC, Monument Category, Decree 56/2009. BOC N 103 (05/19/2009).


Illustrious City Hall of the Villa de Los Realejos, Inventory of Real Estate of the Villa de Los Realejos. Tenerife Island , Hon. Town Hall of the Villa de Los Realejos, 2012.

Los Realejos Town Hall: 'Los Realejos, a historical synthesis '. Los Realejos, 1995.

Insular Program of Historical Heritage, Island Council of Tenerife - CICOP Spain, 1996.

Camacho P rez Gald s, Guillermo. 'La Hacienda de Los Pr ncipes ' . The lagoon of Tenerife. Higher Council for Scientific Research. Institute of Canary Studies, 1943.


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