A living museum of bees - what a great idea!

Here is the laboratory when honey can be analysed. The next picture shows the extraction room where the honey is extracted from the combs. On the next floor down were the settling tanks. The honey flowed into these using natural gravity.

The bottling room.

A demonstration of how bees, when left alone, will build up their own comb.

The workshop - Frames with comb.

An old chestnut hive.

A cross section of a hive.

A replica of an apiary in the mountains built within a stone wall to keep the bears out. Note the use of chestnut stumps for hives

Outside apiaries.

Did the donkey get stung?

The patron saints of beekeepers.

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