Moinho da Pedra

I like it, I live here, I see it all

Because it is already very rare to see mills of these working.

Beautiful place in Mira Sintra, to visit.

Beautiful, well cared for on the outside but lacking maintenance of the mechanisms. A work of art will soon be lost.

Keeping traditions. Giving knowledge of our history of the locality where we live

The Moinho de Pedra Mira Sintra is silent, it is not included in the information system for architectural heritage, the general direction of cultural heritage. Its inclusion was proposed considering the relief it should have in Mira Sintra. We need content to enrich and enhance the existing heritage in the parish union region of Agualva Mira Sintra. The information system for architectural heritage thanks the fact that it contributed with the new proposal for new content for the inventory of built heritage integrated in the SIPA architectural information system. The reference code assigned to this proposal is as follows: 3025 (Moinho de Pedra - Mira Sintra).

The history of this mill is made up of a path of persistence of the Associação de Raiz cultural, called “O Moinho”. That windmill that today shares the landscape with housing blocks in a neighborhood with its own life, with a blazing cultural activity, developed in a space worthy of the name it has: Casa da Cultura de Mira Sintra, Lívio de Morais, is known Moinho de Mira Sintra , in our times. But in its genesis, it was called Moinho do Casal da Pedra. Ancient estates that go hand in hand with Local and National History, as they integrated the goods of the great and famous Bishop D. Domingos Anes Jardo. We return to Moinho da Pedra, by the hand of historian Rui Oliveira. “We can rigorously affirm that it is an example, still functional, of the typical windmills that, in the middle of the 18th century, and after the earthquake, began to swarm the hills of the Lisbon term, imposing themselves by their technological innovation, standardization, profitability and easy maintenance throughout the South of Portugal ”. Also according to Rui Oliveira, “we have news of the construction of a windmill in Casal da Pedra, in 1783. The information appears in the« Index of News of the Registry of this house of saint Eloy in the City of Lisbon », Tomo II, year 1766; which refers to a given step, as title: “this mill as it was made in the land of the previous term belongs to Martins Matheus” The so-called Manoel Moreira and Valentina Maria were the previous Lords of Praz will give Jacinto Roque a license to make the mill, being obliged to pay for the Convent 3 chickens and two bushels of wheat which for that reason lowered the forum of the Cazal. On March 31, 1783, a new tenure was made in three lives of the same Agostinho Roque, who is found… ». “Subsequently and in the“ Inventory of extinction of the Convent of Santo Eloy de Lisboa ”of 1834, page 139, we have the news of this same mill that was reportedly sold to Pedro Filipe, being mentioned, in a note that it was already in poor condition - the text says: demolished ”, says Rui Oliveira. “It was probably this new owner who rebuilt it and gave it the trace that came to us”, believes the Historian, Rui Oliveira.

The Pedra mill owes its name to the place where it is located, formerly called “Casal da Pedra” where Quinta dos Lóios used to be. It is a magnificent example of the typical windmills of the saloia region, with two floors, with the door and windows facing south and two more windows, one facing northeast and one facing southeast. Having reached the state of disrepair, the local authority proceeded in 2002 to its recovery.