{"id":12674,"date":"2017-01-11T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/?p=12674"},"modified":"2017-01-11T16:10:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T15:10:00","slug":"vallone-dei-mulini-sorrento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/vallone-dei-mulini-sorrento\/","title":{"rendered":"Vallone dei Mulini, Sorrento"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are <strong>hidden<\/strong> <strong>places<\/strong>, parts of Italy that are so\u00a0incredible as unknown and secret. The <strong>Vallone dei Mulini<\/strong>\u00a0in <strong>Sorrento<\/strong> is one of them: an <strong>old<\/strong> <strong>mill<\/strong>, now <strong>abandoned<\/strong> and submerged by vegetation.<\/p>\n<p>About its\u00a0<strong>history<\/strong> we\u00a0know a few things: that until the early nineteenth century all the grain for the Sorrento people were ground\u00a0here, the adjoining sawmill was powered by water from <strong>natural<\/strong> <strong>sources<\/strong>, which next to the mill and the mill was attached a public wash where local women went to wash clothes. These little information can be inferred only from old photographs, prints or paintings, the chronicles of the time didn&#8217;t recorded\u00a0anything.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12675\" class=\"thumbnail alignnone\"><img class=\"size-large wp-image-12675\" src=\"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/01\/4465994505_4798a80116_b-870x490.jpg\" alt=\"Vallone dei Mulini\" width=\"870\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/01\/4465994505_4798a80116_b-870x490.jpg 870w, https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/01\/4465994505_4798a80116_b-570x320.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \/><div class=\"caption\">photo by Richard Carter<\/div><\/div>\n<p>The <strong>mysterious<\/strong> <strong>valley<\/strong>, <strong>abandoned<\/strong> in <strong>1866<\/strong> (after the construction of Piazza Tasso had closed every avenue of communication), has been <strong>reclaimed<\/strong>\u00a0by <strong>nature<\/strong>, which found the ideal climatic conditions for ferns and plants of all kinds, and turned it into a true green\u00a0work of art.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12676\" class=\"thumbnail alignnone\"><img class=\"size-large wp-image-12676\" src=\"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/01\/4465994977_66ca0615a2_b-870x490.jpg\" alt=\"photo by Richard Carter\" width=\"870\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/01\/4465994977_66ca0615a2_b-870x490.jpg 870w, https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/01\/4465994977_66ca0615a2_b-570x320.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \/><div class=\"caption\">photo by Richard Carter<\/div><\/div>\n<p>We discovered this magical place thanks to\u00a0the <strong>Spanish artist<\/strong> J. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/juanillooo\/1191878564\/\" target=\"_blank\">Salmoral<\/a> and artist R. <a href=\"http:\/\/gruts.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Carter<\/a>, who visited and <strong>photographed<\/strong> it from all angles. Thanks Richard and Juan!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are hidden places, parts of Italy that are so\u00a0incredible as unknown and secret. The Vallone dei Mulini\u00a0in Sorrento is one of them: an old mill, now abandoned and submerged by vegetation. About its\u00a0history we\u00a0know a few things: that until the early nineteenth century all the grain for the Sorrento people were ground\u00a0here, the adjoining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":12677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[214],"tags":[231,1821,291,91,1385],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Vallone dei Mulini, Sorrento - Ecobnb<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Vallone dei Mulini of Sorrento, an old nineteenth-century industrial area overrun by nature, is one of the secret places of Italy\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/vallone-dei-mulini-sorrento\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vallone dei Mulini, Sorrento - 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