33/50.- Sarbi village, watermill

The village of Sarbi on the Cosau river lies like an open air museum with impressive carved Maramures wooden gates, traditional wooden houses and their annexes, wooden churches and numerous water based installations, whirlpools, watermills, an alcohol distillery. In this picture you can see a wooden watermill where village women do their laundry, and the miller grinds corn, thrashes oats and distills plum brandy.

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