Water mill cellar 2

Our house is a (former) watermill. For milling grain. Watermills in the south have a horizontal waterwheel. Not driven by a river, but with a big waterjet, from a big vat of water. Horizontal waterwheels usually are located in the cellar, to get a good height difference.

Our house has two cellars. The one under the kitchen is in the picture left.

At the back of that cellar is a hatch. If you open that you see narrow stairs down. We didn't dare to go down there before, and had just glimpsed the waterwheel, that is indeed still located in the second and deepest cellar.

And if you dare to go down, and creep down those stairs, you enter a domed room, with the wheel in all it's .. um.. glory.

This is the entrance, that becomes the exit in mysterious ways as soon as you're here.

This is the exit for the water. A water tunnel, a number of meters, 4 or 5, below ground, that resurfaces about 100 meters beyond the house. It then goes on to the next watermill, that we have not yet located.

Some odd tools are still there.

The watertunnel crosses the Rio Antas about 500 meters from the house with this aqueduct.

Beautiful, isn't it.

Well, no longer. In 2012 there has been an enormous downpour in the hills, and the aqueduct was washed away by a giant flood.

Only the foundations are left.

This watertunnel runs from Aljariz to vera, feeding 4 or 5 watermills, ours being one of them. 5 kilometers of watertunnel! This must have been a giant project 200 years ago. A multitude of our house! Great respect to these people!

Can José make himself known and explain why he needed to write on my cellar wall?