The master's house.

Strozza. - The town is located on the eastern side of the Imagna Valley and is a characteristic stone village, nestled in the woods. Here lives a small museum that tells the method of preserving food, when life was without electricity and machinery, taking advantage of the temperature of the snow. From the floor of the square a trap door opens where the snow was shoveled, collected between the ridges of the mountains.

Snow fell into the nevera chamber until it was filled with it. The hatch was then closed to isolate it, as were the two internal doors that isolated the bedroom and corridor from the kitchen. The snow, which had also been compacted, naturally melted a little, the water flowed into the gutter below and mostly froze. At this point, foodstuffs were placed on the surrounding shelves and could be stored at a constant temperature of about 5 ° c. In the museum we know the tools built for other uses, such as the ice cream machine by Ol Giat. He, who had a shop in Strozza, poured the snow and salt into the cavity of the double wooden container and, in the internal basket, the cream. By turning the handle, the centrifugal energy activated the compacting effect of the salt on the crystals that freezed the internal container, whipping the cream into ice cream. The visiting children will have the task of figuring out if the ghost of the icebox is in the fireplace room, where it has been closed for a long time, by observing if its hat is hanging at the entrance!