Neviera of Moncibella district
Building, mostly underground, built for the underground part with continuous masonry cladding in blocks of shapeless stones. Double dome roof, also made with non-square blocks of basalt. The neviera is located in the Moncibella district and can be reached from the town of Buccheri along the state road n. 124 towards Syracuse up to the junction on the left with the provincial road n. 10 Cassaro-Ferla Buccheri. Going along the road for about seven hundred meters, you will find a secondary road with no exit on the left, which you follow for about four hundred meters until you reach a hilly area at the top of which the asset can be identified. The neviera has a large collapse of the structure and the covering mantle in the east part, in the remaining part, disconnection of the segments and presence of weeds grown on the earth used to compact the outer covering mantle. Inside there is the presence of humidity with the consequent diffusion of mosses and lichens.
Remarks:
The dome on the west side of the property has a particular architectural configuration for some types of snowfields with the interposition, in the extrados, of square blocks arranged in a radial pattern. The external cladding of the structure, in fact, is made up of non-squared limestone segments of small size compacted by the ground that entirely occupy the spaces between one radial and the other, performing the main function of waterproofing the roof and preventing it from washing away. This snow house, deprived of a collapse of part of the east side, has, today visible, an opening on the north side, perhaps originally closed by a small door, and another, square and small from which the snow was thrown, at the top; moreover, although not detectable due to the difficulty of reaching the bottom, it certainly maintains an element common to all types of neviere, namely the
underground drainage channel for dissolved water, which was technically dug under the internal level and sloping, starting from the center, to allow the drainage of the neviera and, therefore, to easily eliminate excess water. The bottom of the snow cellar, precisely because it was largely under the external floor, had to be necessarily reached by means of a stone staircase built along the internal wall; but the total absence of residual traces suggests that in the present case the connection structure was mobile
(Text source: General Catalog of Cultural Heritage).
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