Ecomuseu Farinera de Castelló d'Empúries Castelló d'Empúries
A visit to La Farinera will not cease to surprise you! The Farinera Ecomuseum, a museum at your fingertips!
One hundred years have passed since in Castelló d'Empúries, the old Mig mill was converted into a modern flour factory that operated with technological innovation from Europe. Today, the factory is still here, converted into a museum that allows you to discover this impressive production system and learn how humanity has transformed wheat during the 10,000 years that it has been fed, the importance of bread in our diet and the role of water to obtain energy.
The milling tradition of Castelló d'Empúries dates back to ancient times, when the town was the capital of the county and there were three flour mills that ran with water from the mill ditch. Of these three mills, only one was preserved, already transformed into a flour mill. Today, recovered by the municipality and converted into a museum, it invites you to learn about the flour industrialization process.
The visit offers you a tour of the factory spaces through which you can see the cleaning machines (which separate the impurities from the wheat), the conditioning machines (which prepare the wheat to be ground) and the milling machines - with the impressive mills. reds —, true heart of the Farinera. From top to bottom and bottom to top, in a complex vertical network, wheat, flour and other products follow a circuit that leads them from one machine to another. So as not to get lost, enjoy the audiovisual accompanying the grain of wheat on its tour of the factory. 20,000 kilos of wheat passed through these machines every day! And before you leave, pay attention to the men and women who worked in the factory day after day. It will capture the feeling and know-how of these people and these lands.
