House of Ice
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Ladder barrier known as the "Ice House" so-called as it contains a surface spillway which, creating a surface current, allowed men suitably armed with a wooden rod reinforced with a metal tip, placed on a bridge equipped with adjustable gates to the use of a filter, to prevent, during the cold season, that the sheets of ice, which formed upstream of the lock and entered the canal, from "ruining" the wooden wheels of the mills of Bologna
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•June 15, 2021
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