From day three of our Bosnia holiday - 9th May, 2024.
This was the last place we visited before returning to Banja Luka to do some personal shopping, something I really hate but have to suffer in silence.
This is a little old village full of watermills with water coming down in every direction from a nearby lake.
Watermills have been built on the Pliva River since the Middle Ages. Just one cluster of mills remains today, located on the natural cascade where the water flows between the two Pliva Lakes. Apparently local farmers used the mills to grind wheat into flour right up until the Second World War.
Although the windmills are no longer functional, they have been preserved and maintained as a national monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina . The complex of watermills, along with the Pliva Lakes, was officially recognized as a National Monument due to its natural, historical, architectural, geological, and scientific value.
Thank you very much for your looks, for the comments and fav's on yesterday's picture.
A super shot of this very interesting site and great narrative ! Obviously a popular stop for the tourists - seeing the two coaches on the road above !
So interesting, I hadn’t heard of individual mills before. A great great grandfather had a mill in Germany, it was the Catholic mill and there was a Protestant mill in the same village. They built a mill when they came to Illinois.
