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The Sant Blai Ice Cave

The Sant Blai Ice Cave is a deposit comprising a circular base measuring 7.70m in diameter by 11m in depth, with a hemispheric roof (partly made using masonry w...
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The Sant Blai Ice Cave is a deposit comprising a circular base measuring 7.70m in diameter by 11m in depth, with a hemispheric roof (partly made using masonry with the remaining third excavated directly out of the rock) and a closed conical opening. On the upper floor there is a door (allowing access for the workers and through which the snow was fed) and a lower gallery, about 20m long, which has a channel carved into one of the sides permitting the run off of excess water. This gallery, with a height of 1.80m and a width of 1m, is now used as the ice cave entrance, in the bottom of which you can see the run-off channels carved out of the rock, as previously mentioned. The inside walls are clad in a reddish material, and half way up you can see where there was once a small blind door, which once communicated with the exterior.

(source: http:--www.bocairent.org-index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7&Itemid=17&lang=en)
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