This mill was donated by its owners to the Folkloric Group of Santo António de Vagos, which installed it in the Casa Gandaresa museum space.
This mill belongs to a very common typology in the Gandares landscape of other times, commonly known as the “Jewish mill”. They were mills that belonged to farmers who erected them to grind their own grain.
It is a windmill, with a very simple wooden structure and zinc roof, based on a circular base, on which the wheels move that make it rotate, hence the name of the rotating mill. Its shape is apparently triangular, being slightly rounded on the side where the access door to the interior is located.

Of the interior mechanism, we highlight the wooden coupling whose teeth drive a metallic reel, the couple of millstones and the hopper, also called the “trough” from which the cereal falls into the millstone. Flour falls into a wooden box.
Outside, you can see the canopy, made up of four triangular sails in white canvas.
Currently, it is the only example of a working windmill in the district of Aveiro, together with Moinho Ti Pascoal.

Source: https://www.cm-vagos.pt/pages/978?poi_id=285