Once important industrial hubs for grinding grain, pumping water, or generating electricity, windmills have slowly become obsolete. But savvy real estate fans are snapping them up to create striking, ...

Moinho de Avis on the Serra de Montejunto is the biggest windmill in Portugal. This typical windmill with its clay pots attached to the sails is situated right behind the restaurant Curral do Burro, ...

ZAANDIJK, Netherlands (AP) — A wintry gust of wind raises hopes that the giant sails of a centuries-old windmill near Amsterdam will start turning. On the mill’s cutting floor, six blades briefly rise ...

A campaign has been launched to get a windmill grinding flour again - in urban south London. The Grade II-listed, 197-year-old Brixton Windmill will start grinding again for the first time since 1934 ...

A historic windmill could be restored to working order for the first time in nearly 90 years. Plans have been put together for the restoration of Fulbourn Windmill in Cambridge Road, with the goal of ...