Alagni is a village situated on an altitude of 470 meters above sea level. Even-though the altitude is not very high, Alagni used to have plenty of windmills in the past, that did not only serve the local residents but the nearby villages as well. There is even a rural location called “Anemomiloi”, meaning windmills in Greek, where we still find the ruins of one of the mills that were operating there until after the German occupation. A little further, at the location “Mavro Spilio” there was a second windmill that is nowadays completely destroyed. Those two were not the only windmills at the village though, there were others but they are now completely vanished and forgotten. The windmill had a vertical system that could not be manually rotated. Its operation was solely depended on the direction and strength of the wind. This type of windmill was very rare around Greece but quite common in Crete. As the elderly residents of Alagni remember, farmers were delivering their grains to the mills using donkeys and mules while the millers were usually living at the mills due to the long hours and the heavy workload. The mills were also great meeting points or points for social gatherings in the past. Since the mills could only work with a strong northern wind, millers had to wait for many hours to grind the grains. The windmills were operating day and night from August until October. The grains were sacked, piled up outside the mill and the miller had to watch out for possible thieves too. Before the 1950s, Alagni had plenty of acreage sowed with grain, as the seeds were a great source of food, the flower was necessary for baking bread and the straw was needed for feeding the animals.