The Mills of Cerete ---

The abundance of water is at the origin of a vocation that has been rooted for centuries in Val Borlezza. This natural element, a source of strength and wealth, has allowed numerous artisanal activities to flourish over time: sawmills, workshops, a paper mill, hydraulic pestles and also many mills. In Cerete, in the heart of the valley, a place has been identified where eight of them stood. According to the village elders, however, along the streams that run through the town, there must have been many more: even the neighboring municipalities had mills owned right in Cerete. Two of these have survived intact to the present day and are still in operation: these are the bark-crushing mill and the Giudici mill, managed since October 2018 by Flavio Vecchi who left his permanent job driven by passion