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The bronze La Giraldilla weather vane on one of the fort’s towers — depicting a woman scanning the seas for her lost husband, an early Cuban governor — has been adopted as the symbol of the city and of Havana Club rum.
Here the sails and tiller match the windmill and its vane, orienting the fan to capture the transient wind and extract mechanical work.
And it wasn’t until 1558 that the addition of the huge bells and a weather vane (Giralda in Spanish) in the form of a statue of a beautiful goddess representing Faith, raised the height to 98 m (322 ft).
The windmill’s vane will measure the direction of the wind and actually orient the windmill fan blades perpendicular to the wind.
The vane on the windmill in eect measures the direction of the wind and pivots the windmill such that its fan blades are perpendicular to the wind.