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The mill Berretta Piazza Armerina


Leaving the Via Tasso near the Priory of St. Andrew, continue along a stretch of road dirt road until reaching near the mill.
The reading of the article is clear thanks to discrete preservation.
The service rooms are squared stone and there are still present the floors and wooden roofs covered with typical Sicilian tiles.
Tampering can be read in a cover flap covered with tiles to Marseilles, also its dimensions are ordinary, yet everything does not lessen the charm of this old factory that has a high formal conferred by the succession of four pointed arches which support the 'canalization system.
The channel walls are made shapeless stone, but the arches are made up of blocks of hewn stone, so subtle as to look like bricks, which have allowed the pointed arch profile to remain virtually intact over time.
In factories like this are so found architectural features inherited from the Arabs.

Source: GAL Ceres Rock


The mill Berretta Piazza Armerina




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