Arévalo never stopped in so many trips to and from Madrid. lie, I once did to photograph the striking, modern mill flours Villafranquina Harinera group, but No or had entered the city, despite knowing their important architecture related to wheat and flour. Finally, on Sunday 13 February, despite the rain, I decided to make the visit. grain silo and Museum in the castle
Arévalo Castle was transformed into a silo in 1952 by the National Wheat Ministry of Agriculture, from the then owner of the monument. Thus, since the strength blanket inside a building for storing grain, namely 1,080 tons. The silo is a central structure of brick with metal reinforcements at the joints and reinforced concrete pillars at the corners of the cells, which bisects the courtyard of the castle. This construction consists of 8 bays of cells in the longitudinal and two transverse. All cells are supported under the two plants that rise to p ermit communication between areas where the courtyard is divided. A cell is designed to accommodate vertical lifting machinery and stairs to the top of cells, which houses the screw horizontal grain distribution.
At the same, stays nobles went to meeting rooms for staff in the Ministry of Agriculture, who also settled in the 1970's an interesting Cereal Museum in higher plant of the tower. This is a collection of cereal varieties collected by the laboratory of the National Wheat Service since 1956 at its headquarters in Madrid, settling samples in a glass bottle shaped grain with a rear slot in which is placed a test tube with a bunch of spikes on the inside. The museum may be about 250 varieties of wheat by type and business classes, over 140 samples of other real ce and 90 weed, plus a collection of insects from barns explanatory posters of their life cycles. Since 1968, the silo is not working as such (a larger one was built and operational) and 2009 has carried out comprehensive rehabilitation of the castle. The museum and various rooms of the monument can be visited free of charge on Saturdays and holidays throughout the year, excluding New Year's day, May Day and Christmas, morning hours: 10 to 14 h afternoon: from 16 to 18 h.
Flour Factory "Our Lady of Sorrows" This flour was already in the 1920 when I was pr opiedad of Gerardo Martin . It is a brick building of magnificent fatur and aesthetics, which now houses the factory and furniture exhibition Alvarez brothers.
Flour Factory "Villafran Harinera machine"
flour This plant has a milling capacity of 1,330 tons of wheat a day. The storage silos can hold up to 78,200 wheat and 15,200 tonnes of tonnes of finished products. belongs to Harinera Villafranquina, SA .
For an old postcard also know the existence of another flour mill on the river hydraulic Arevalillo called Molino Valencia . If anyone has more news, as always we would be delighted to expand our references.
Sources:
http://www.ayuntamientoarevalo.es/05eofi_tur/03/castillo/castillo.htm
http://www.hvsa.es/HARINERA/Castellano/Web/Instalaciones/Arevalo. htm
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