The Mayor of Lasithi Plateau in Greece Yiannis Stefanakis has petitioned Greece’s Ministry of Culture and Sports to include the windmills of Lasithi to the National Catalog of Intangible Cultural Heritage, according to the Athens News Agency (ANA).
According to the mayor, after many months of systematic research and documentation carried out by the Municipality of Lasithi Plateau, Crete, significant data on the benefits of the specific windmill design during history have emerged.
In the context of the study, as described by Stefanakis, it is revealed that during the period of great droughts in Africa and India in the early 1970s, UNICEF sent specialist engineers to Crete who copied the Lasithi windmills and constructed identical recreations in Ethiopia, India and South America.
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