In the locality Prada high is preserved one of the different mills in the country: at MULIN OF VALBÙZ. It had two millstones, tumbler and pile, partly preserved and a bread oven, with the press. It dates back to the 18th century. This is evidenced by the thousandth on the stack ‘1792’. The mill operated until 1955, and the kiln until the following year. Until 1947 in summer the Valbuzzi, called the Mulinée, cn his cart, he would pass through the various districts to load sacks full of grain and take them to the mill, noting in his notebook the names of the owners, the number of sacks, and the weight of each sack. He would also go up to Bratta and Piazzeda with his two donkeys to fetch the rye and buckwheat grain, take it to his mill in the village, grind it, and then take the flour back up there after retaining the mulitüra, i.e. the agreed amount of flour, as compensation.
Considering the considerable distance of the two hamlets from the mill, the round trip had a considerable weight on the economy of the hamlets, who began to think about the possibility of milling wheat in their localities.
Don Cyril, the unforgettable parish priest of Bratta, in the immediate post-war period, managed to get electricity up there, and in no time at all, both Bratta and Piazzeda had their own electric mill! For all of them it was a great achievement. The elderly still remember with great emotion the day the millstone was transported: a huge effort in which the hamlet residents participated en masse, pushing and pulling the cart with the millstone up the steep mule tracks together with the mules using every kind of rope they could find, including those from the bell tower!
