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ポンテヴィコは、ロンバルディア州ブレシア県の南端に位置する、約7,150人の住民がいるイタリアのコムーネ（基礎自治体）です。この町は、クレモナ県との自然な境界を形成するオーリオ川沿いの歴史的に戦略的な場所にあります。その名前は、文字通り「村の橋」を意味するラテン語の「Pons Vici」に由来しています。 自治体の領土は主に平坦で、ベッテグノ、カンパッツォ、キエズーラ、トーロの集落が含まれています。地元の経済は歴史的に、強力な農業への適性とバッサ・ブレシアーナ地区に関連する繊維産業の発展との間で分かれています。中心部はブレシアの県庁所在地から約32キロメートル離れており、A21号線またはブレシア-クレモナ鉄道線で車で簡単にアクセスできます。

純粋なジロ・グラベル。少しリラックスするためにアスファルトの混合区間があります。日陰と日向が交互に現れますが、私の意見では中間シーズンがより良いでしょう。ヴェロラヴェッキアとヴェロラヌオーヴァの区間は、その特徴的な建築様式とともに美しいです。楽しい登り坂と下り坂がありますが、そのためには良いブレーキが必要です（いつものように）。

The trail, which runs alongside the Canale Civico Cremonese, is straight and uneven, running through fields and rows of vines on a dirt surface. Stable and even, it's a perfect stretch for gravel and touring bikes.

Beautiful

Used for food preservation, in the winter it was filled with snow and straw: the straw had an insulating function, while the snow, with its weight, became ice compacting inside the structure. This allowed the preservation of food in the summer. We are in "Scorzarolo", an old abandoned village near Verolavecchia (BS), here the icehouse most likely served two dairies for the processing of dairy products. The icehouse or "neviera" is made in a truncated cone shape with a circular plan and walls, usually in brick masonry or, like the one in Scorzarolo, in bricks, the ceiling is made in a dome. There are small windows and an entrance, the structure is about 4m deep.

The Scorzarolo Ice House: Ingenuity and Tradition This circular brick structure, with an ogival roof and about four meters deep, was filled with snow in the winter to preserve food during the summer. It may also have had a public-health service function, making it a key element of rural life at the time.

Next to the silent ruins of a large farmhouse in Verolavecchia, the ancient icehouse resists time, guardian of an agricultural past that tells of ingenuity and tradition. A precious testimony, immersed in the placid simplicity of the plain, where every brick speaks of toil and life lived. Discover it with a slow cycle tourism: pedal among memories of times gone by and let yourself be enveloped by the hidden details of a territory that knows how to excite with its authenticity. Here, in the heart of Bassa Bresciana, even the past continues to breathe.

Always a happy presence and a passage in many of our tours, I think it is one of the most photographed highlights