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In the Vall d'Ora, in the Solsonès region, there is a fabulous eco-museum of old crafts that shows an old mill still in operation, as we see in this report in La Vanguardia's Readers' Photos.
Currently, in the Vall d'Ora we find the flour mills of Cal Guirre, Ca l'Ambròs and Molí Vell de Canaleta. In the rest of the municipality, there was also the Molí Nou de Postils, the Molí de Can Feliu and the Molí de Moscavera, which also used to have attached sawmills and blacksmith shops.
In documents from the twelfth century, written in Latin, there is already talk of the mills located in the Vall d'Ora moved by the water of the Aiguadora river, who were feudatories of the monastery of Sant Pere de Graudescales.
In 1995, at the initiative of Navès City Council, the restoration of the Ca l'Ambròs Mill, the adjacent sawmill, the medieval bridge with two arches that crosses the river and the old Vall d'Ora school began.
Later, in a second phase, a small Ecomuseu was installed with a display of the activities that were carried out in the Vall d'Ora until the mid-20th century, some of which lasted until the 1980s while the last two millers lived. : Salvador Subirana, from Ca l'Ambròs, and Josep Pujol, from Cal Guirre.
The Vall d'Ora Ecomuseu is made up of the old school, the Estudi, Ca l'Ambròs and Cal Guirre, spaces connected to each other by the irrigation canal path, about 500 meters long. It shows what life was like in the farmhouses in the 19th century and what work was done.
In Vall d'Ora there was everything from a barber to the flour production trade, work in the sawmill or also in the blacksmith shop. In the Estudi images and tools of its inhabitants related to these trades are preserved: household utensils, farm utensils... corresponding to all types of tasks that guaranteed survival in the area, as seen in the photographs.
The Vall d'Ora is made up of scattered farmhouses dominated by the Busa mountain range and bathed by the Aiguadora river. The Romanesque churches, the hiding places from the Civil War or the legend of Count Guifré are part of its history and heritage.
