Architect: Manuel Fonseca Gallego, Javier López , Ramón Pico Location: Ayamonte, Spain Colaborators: Visitacion Rodriguez Pastrana, David Caballor Bartolome, Gabriel Cuena Lopez Contractor: Bardera , S.L. Project date: December 1996 Total usable area: 394,63 sqm Total built area: 508,63 sqm Project Year: 2007 Photographs: Fernando Alda Calvo
The first tidal mill we know of in Europe emerges in the south of France in 1125. In the middle of the fourteenth century there were around 50 mills on the coast from Ayamonte to Faro. In the eighteenth century we find about 10 mills operating at full capacity around Ayamonte, including the present one, built around 1750 by an Indiano named D. Manuel Rivero and nicknamed “El Pintado” (The Painted). Nowadays, five of them remain in that municipality.
