Discover the popular architecture and ethnographic heritage of the "muños", old water mills that played a crucial role in the local economy and rural life.

In this area in the south of the province of Pontevedra the mills are called "muños". A local name for an area full of rivers and streams, where milling was of great importance to the local economy. At a time when electricity was not available, part of the local population's diet was based on the flour that came out of these "muños".
The muños are one of the most representative examples of popular Galician architecture and a very valuable ethnographic heritage. Important episodes of rural life took place around these constructions. News of the region, legends, history, stories and, in short, popular culture and traditions were passed on by word of mouth next to these constructions while the mill transformed the grain into flour.
The water from the streams reached the "montículos" through canals, of greater or lesser length depending on the distance from the river. Through a funnel-shaped channel, the water enters the inferno to move the roller. In this way, the energy of the water is transformed into rotating movement, which is transmitted to the millstone through the Touzo, moving the millstone and crushing the grain on the foot that remains fixed.
A few metres from the last millstone, there is a channel that carries part of the water from the river Cal to the mills of Folón and Picón. Arriving at the Muíños do Nivel, where the water is separated to feed both sets of mills.