Dammusi of Pantelleria
With the term dammuso (changed from Sicilian dammusu which means "vault" or "intrados") indicates two typically Sicilian architectural structures: the historic house of the Iblei Mountains consisting of a natural cave enlarged over the centuries and the traditional house of the island of Pantelleria.
The typical dammuso of the island of Pantelleria is of uncertain origins, but probably remote. The simplest examples are constructions in local lava stone, dry-walled with double facing of rough-hewn stones and walls of considerable thickness. The plant is generally quadrangular and is surmounted by a domed or, more rarely, barrel roof, whitewashed and used for the collection of rainwater that feeds the cisterns. Characteristic elements of architectural furniture of the pantesco dammuso are thelittle house (niche in the walls), the ducchena (stone quay leaning against the walls), la pinnate (canopy with wooden beams and reed cover) and the passiaturi (a sort of uncovered corridor for connecting different environments).
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Technical sheet prepared by: Region of Sicily - Department of cultural heritage and Sicilian identity - CRicd: Regional center for inventory, cataloging and documentation and Sicilian regional film library
