Molin dei Turi

Peio Paese had four mills driven by water; the Molìn dei Turi, in the middle of the village, is the only one left that can be visited, and it has always belonged to the Turri family, from generation to generation. The avalanche of 13 December 1916 partly destroyed it: it was Paolo Turri who put it back on its feet, with his brother don Antonio keeping the accounts. On 2 February 1943 a fire burned 97 houses in the village, and the mill was among the thirteen buildings that were saved. With the arrival of electricity, electric current took the place of water in turning the millstones, and the mill worked that way until the 1970s; the last miller was Paolo Turri. In 2018 the Comune bought it, to make it a site of the ecomuseum: recently restored, it opens on festival days.