La ghiacciaia piramidale

Admission

exterior only

as of 5 Nov

Getting there

OLMI FONTE DI NARCISO · bus 55 · 20 mOLMI SHELLEY · bus 55 · 60 mOLMI GALOPPO · bus 55 · 480 m

Map

The pyramid-shaped ice house, built to keep the cold inside even in the warmest seasons and which nothing has to do with Egypt, is located near Pavoniere, in viale degli Olmi. It’s a ten-meters high structure, built in 1796 on a project by Giuseppe Manetti, florentine architect at the court of Ferdinando III Lorraine. Inside the pyramid there are niches that used to be filled with snow, stored during winter or taken down from the Apennines, which was used during summer to make sorbets and icecreams, but also to conserve the cheese produced by the Grand Ducal Farm. The structure was not, naturally, the only facility used for this purpose.

Text from FeelFlorence (en), the official tourism portal of the Comune di Firenze and the Citta Metropolitana di Firenze; shortened

• Le Pavoniere2 min walk
• Ippodromo delle Cascine3 min walk
• Percorso vita delle Cascine4 min walk