THE MILLERS
THE MILLERS |
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| Every year, the millers had to swear on the square, to behave
seriously and honestly to protect the cereals and flour from thefts, to keep flour sacks
in dry places (to avoid an increase of weight). The millers received a sixteenth of the
milled flour as a reward.
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In the Middle Ages besides the mills, built on the ground of Ivrea, there were also many mills floating on the Dora river, that consisted of two or more sailing boats, connected one to another by a wharf,
They were anchored to the river sides, so that the trunks of the trees coming from Aosta Valley could continue their way. The mills belonged to the church or to rich families that rented them for a certain number of years
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