It walls of the Fotezza Da Basso hide the longest gallery and buia, than it covers to them for all the perimeter. A true one and just bunker. Abandoned they give along time, the gallery basement is flooded in many points and, at times, interrupted from landslides.
Nevertheless, it constituted a fundamental element of the defensive system of the fort. For this we have explored it, equips to you with boots, torchs, beacons and one ricetrasmittente in need case.
The way, in fact, is uneven and full of "tranelli", constituted above all from the holes for I drain it of waters. They do not lack, then, the objects of every type - from the bottles to the scrap iron it leaves from who passed you in the cunicolo, also during the last world war.
In order to enter we have chosen an income to the left of the “Door to the Campaign”, hour bulwark. To beyond the "cancelletto" completely rusted, the corridor begins.
Going ahead, "troniere" are found, that is the emplacements from which the soldiers could strike, with shooting shaved, all the zone of the external ditches. The embrasures, remained intact, were a small capolavoro of military science.
Many contained also three “channels”, places in oblique way, that they allowed the long ones spingarde to shoot the better angle-shot second. The embrasures, moreover, were connected between they, in such way that the fire intercrossed on the outside turned out deadly.
In those tight places and it assigns to you to fill up itself of the smoke provoked from talks nonsense, the air and a light small opening arrived from long fireplaces constructed in stones and mails at a distance nearly constant.... |