The Gregorio Prieto Mill is the largest windmill in the world.

Located in front of the Gregorio Prieto Windmills Museum, the Gregorio Prieto Mill was the first museum in Valdepeñas, after a large number of bricklayers and carpenter millers gave it as a gift to the immortal draftsman and painter from Valdepeñas.

It was born from the effort that this painter dedicated to preserving these constructions. It was intended to house the works of the renowned painter. It currently displays the collection of paintings of the mills created by Gregorio Prieto, along with several models of them.

Gregorio Prieto was throughout his life a defender of the most typical constructions of La Mancha, such as the mills. With his tools—pencils and brushes—he fought a constant battle to defend such a fascinating subject, which, inexplicably, was gradually disappearing. Mills were a central theme in all the exhibitions he held around the world (London, Copenhagen, New York, etc.).

As a result of this struggle, the construction of the largest mill in the world took place in Valdepeñas in the 1950s, built by bricklayers and carpenter millers from the City of Valdepeñas. Its mission is to house a collection of the works Gregorio Prieto created about milling. As Gregorio said, “I intend for my mill to be the mother and symbol of all the others.” This mill was the first museum in our city, and it becomes Valdepeñas’ tribute, and that of the painter, to these rural monuments that, not so long ago, adorned the plains of La Mancha.