FODESMA
is a section of the
Promotion
and Occupation Department of the
Insular
Council of Mallorca dedicated to the restoration, preservation and
diffusion of the ethnological heritage, by developing professional training
programmes. To promote the importance of the Mallorcan Mills, FODESMA has created
the
Mallorca
Mills web site, including information on waterwheel mills, windmills
and animal traction mills, as well as the catalogue of windmills existing
on Mallorca. The web, edited in Catalan, Spanish and English, also includes
information about the restoration programme for windmills and about the workshops
of Son Bonet. More over there is a section dedicated to the IV International
Molinology Conference, that will be held from May 1 to 3 in Palma, organised
by the Insular Council of Mallorca and ACEM (Asociación para la
Conservación y Estudio de los Molinos).
FODESMA also catalogues, analyses and restores paths and stone constructions
(dry stone walls, charcoal burners' huts, snow houses and terraces), and
carries out the project "Ruta de la Pedra en Sec", a route that goes across
90 kilometres of mountains, from Andratx to Pollença, following
the old network of rural paths of the Serra de Tramuntana. There is more
information about this project on the web
La
pedra en sec, created by FODESMA in 2000.
Photo © BalearWeb: Molí de sa Planeta (Andratx)
