Restoration works on Ta’ Kola windmill in Xagħra, Gozo, should be completed by the end of this year, Tourism Minister Mario de Marco told Labour MP Owen Bonnici in reply to a parliamentary question.

The windmill suffered extensive damage in a severe storm in 2008. The damage went well beyond the sails, and extensive restoration work was needed even on the internal structural mechanism.

After all the necessary studies were carried out, a special kind and thickness of dried timber needed importing.

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