Mulino Vecchio of Bellinzago
Mulino Vecchio of Bellinzago is one of the watermills which were built in the valley of the river Ticino. At the moment it is the only one working. In 1985 the mill was bought by Ticino Park which restored it. Thanks to the contribution of Regione Piemonte, the Mulino became a Regional Center of Environmental Education and acquired a very important social function.
Parco del Ticino has begun an intense collaboration with the world of school. The proposal and the instruments used work as a support to the didactic programs dealing with environmental education issues. The aim of the Park is to create, through these interventions, a greater sensitization towards nature which might lead to a more correct management of the territory and a better relationship between man and environment.
Among the various proposals, the didactic structure of the Mulino Vecchio acquires a particular importance.
At the Mill it is possible to exploit various didactic opportunities, increasing in this way the learning possibilities also through the direct contact with a reality which bring us back in time.
