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ROUTES
1. San Corrado Fuori le Mura: mura monumentali con scalette.
To 5 Km from the city of Famous, along the distance in order to catch up S. Corrado outside walls them to a height of 290 m. it is possible to admire on the left a wide terrazzamento made in stone to dry that carried out one agricultural function of control and. It walls they go back to first of the XX sec and are associated to the overhanging construction of Peppina Villa. Every level is connected to that advanced one through of the ladders used for the greater mobility between the levels in an architectonic outline that often finds again in the terrazzamenti of the park of Monte Alveria and in all the Iblei.
2. Contrada Villa Vela: mangiatoia da Muro sagomato.
Along the road that connects the Fraction of Villa Sail to that one of Head of the Water, of forehead to the Messina Villa, is possible to admire a rare example of mangiatoie in dry stone to obtained from a recinzione wall that delimits the area of an ancient masseria. Observing they give near is possible to admire in the body of the wall some obtained rientranze in order to receive the straw. The construction laughed them to the end of the XIX sec probably to work of the Messina. Mangiatoie of this kind we find to them in the territory of the siracusano, one in particular in optimal state to Ancient Avola.
3. Città di Buccheri: le 26 neviere di Buccheri.
In Flat Contrada it is possible to admire various exemplary of neviere or “nivere " to circular or rectangular plant. First neviere they go back to the 700 and they served to accumulate the snow in the winter period that then, transformed in ice, in the warm months came commercialized in all the Sicily and to Malta. Neviere of Buccheri they are dug in a degrading slope to north having used a cliff dictates “girbinu”. The inner walls are covered with masonry of tan squares, the roof are closed from a cupola or once, only structural element that notices itself in surface. On the depositor north one is opened small door, used in order to extract the snow in summer. In winter the snow came unloaded from an other opening, practiced on the side south. Every neviera is encircled from a wall to dry that it defines “zaccanu”, space of pertinenza of the neviera.
4. Castelluccio: le antiche mura del Castello.
Returning behind, exceeded the city of Palazzolo (Patrimony of the Unesco) in direction Head of the Water, arrives in proximity of the rests of the ancient elladica civilization of Castelluccio (1800-1400 a.C.). Of the ancient agropastorale culture of Castelluccio they are remained several reperti. Most important they make head to the numerous necropoli - in the area have been taken a census 200 tombe to furnace with ovoidale plant cell, preceded from a vestibolo - and to it walls monumental of the Village of Castelluccio that raise in one full of rocks spur to a height of 350 m.l.s. Of it walls horizontally remain only great arranged limestone stones and vertically and that they made part of walls monumental that recintavano the medieval citadel. To of under of cove walls is found a warehouse gained from one that laughed them to the XIX sec.
5. San Giacomo: la "mannara" con paralupo.
Leaving from Castelluccio after three crossroads of which the last one on the left, along a tortuosa road in direction the west, and still following for 10 Km is entered in the territory of Saint Giacomo in province of Ragusa that is characterized from a magnificent panorama of constructions in stone to dry - it walls, terraces, masserie, “to trazzere”. In Contrada Cold Cozzo it is possible to observe one “mannira” with wall paralupo. Mannira (the shelter for bovines and ovines) is constituted from a fencing, divided from a wall they centers in which calls are opened of the low openings “several” or “vary them”. She walls of town-walls are defended from long inserted stones perpendicularly in walls, said paralupi that they served in order to prevent to the wild animals to invade the mannera in which the animals were guarded. In this wall the sporgenti stones follow one curve towards the high for giving greater lightness to the body of the wall. Inside of the mannera all were carried out the duties tied to the cure of the animals above all the mungitura. In an angle of the fencing it is moreover possible to observe the house of the shepherdesses dictates “to zammataria” or house “mannara”.
6. San Giacomo: muragghio del Feudo Musso.
Caught up the Village of Saint Giacomo (near the Musso small farm) it is come down for a slope and it is possible to admire a muragghio. The muragghi they are conical towers, often terrazzate, that they are born from the material deriving from the spietramento of a feudo: they can be equips to you of linear ladder or to die. The muragghio of saint Giacomo it came created in occasion of the reclamation of the fields in the XV and XVI sec and for the largeness it is the more imposing copy of the zone beside the muragghi of contrada Tribastoni (Ragusa) and to that one of contrada Centopozzi (Ragusa).To landscaped level the great characteristics of this and all the Muragghi are: the impossibility for who far away observes from determining it of the real dimension and the isolation that derives directly of the largeness of the feudo: and more large feudo more the muragghio it is imposing.
7. Modica: i cuccumeddi e i muri.
In the iblei in order protect the trees hardly it plants you from the animals to the pasture and from eventual fires they were constructed around to the log of the protections, known like “mannaruni” in the ragusano and like “cuccumeddi” in the siracusano.Leaving Saint Giacomo in order to return to the city of Famous he is advisable to cover the road Modica - Frigintini. During the distance a several one can be observed flat with examples of walls and fencings, of “trazzere” or muleteer that is the small roads that served to combine the pastures to the percorribili ways. In this territory the constructed fencings to protection of the plants or the trees of Mandorlo or Ulivo can be admired. A particular one is the presence of a constructed wall in support of a centennial ulivo that is leaned on a wall to dry.
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