Ice house
An ice house or icehouse is a building used to store ice throughout the year, commonly used prior to the invention of the refrigerator. Some were underground chambers, usually man-made, located near natural sources of winter ice, such as freshwater lakes, but many were buildings with various types of insulation.
- Type: Building
- Description: buildings used to store ice throughout the year, commonly used prior to the invention of the refrigerator
- Also known as: “casa de neu”, “cava”, “geleira”, “ghiacciaia”, “glacería”, “ice house”, “icehouse”, “ijskelder”, “ijsruimte”, “ledovna”, “lehniță”, “nevera”, “nevero”, “nevero artificial”, “poço de neve”, “pou de chelo”, “pou de gel”, “pou de glaç”, “poua”, “pozo de hielo”, “pozo de la nieve”, “Pozo de Nieve”, “アイス・ハウス”, “アイスハウス”, “ひむろ”, “ゆきむろ”, and “雪室”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Mount Abantos and Puerto de Malagón.
Mount Abantos
Peak
Mount Abantos is a mountain in the Sierra de Guadarrama range in the Sistema Central of Spain, a chain that runs from east to west. For the most part, the mountain is located in the municipality of San Lorenzo de El Escorial in the Community of Madrid, with part of its west side in the province of Ávila.
Puerto de Malagón
Mountain saddle
Library of the Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial
Library
Places in the Area
Nearby places include El Escorial and Peguerinos.
El Escorial
Town
Peguerinos
Village
Zarzalejo
Village
Ice house
- Categories: built structure and storage
- Location: El Escorial, Madrid, Community of Madrid, Central Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.62048° or 40° 37′ 14″ north
Longitude
-4.15277° or 4° 9′ 10″ west
Open location code
8CGQJRCW+5V
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
building=yes
OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=ice_house
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Ice house” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بيت الجليد”
- Aragonese: “pozo de chelo”
- Aragonese: “Pozo de chelo”
- Azerbaijani: “buzxana”
- Basque: “elurzulo”
- Basque: “Elurzulo”
- Belarusian: “лядоўня”
- Belarusian: “Лядоўня”
- Catalan: “Pou de glaç”
- Catalan: “pou de neu”
- Chinese: “冰窖”
- Czech: “ledárna”
- Czech: “Ledárna”
- Danish: “ishus”
- Dutch: “ijshuis”
- Dutch: “IJsruimte”
- Esperanto: “jakĉalo”
- Estonian: “jääkelder”
- Estonian: “Jääkelder”
- French: “glacière”
- French: “Glacière”
- Galician: “pozo de xeo”
- Galician: “Pozo de xeo”
- German: “Eishaus”
- Greek: “κτίρια αποθήκευσης πάγου”
- Greek: “Κτίρια αποθήκευσης πάγου”
- Hebrew: “בית קרח”
- Hungarian: “jégverem”
- Icelandic: “Íshús”
- Italian: “Ghiacciaia”
- Italian: “neviera”
- Japanese: “氷室”
- Korean: “빙실”
- Latin: “glaciarium”
- Lithuanian: “ledainė”
- Lithuanian: “Ledainė”
- Lombard: “giazzera”
- Lombard: “Giazzera”
- Macedonian: “јакчал”
- Malayalam: “ഐസ് ഹൗസ്”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “ishus”
- Norwegian: “Ishus”
- Persian: “سردخانه”
- Persian: “یخچال”
- Polish: “lodownia”
- Polish: “Lodownia”
- Portuguese: “casa de gelo”
- Portuguese: “Casa de gelo”
- Romanian: “ghețărie”
- Romanian: “Ghețărie”
- Russian: “ледник”
- Russian: “Ледник”
- Sicilian: “ghiaccera”
- Sicilian: “Ghiaccera”
- Silesian: “ajsszrank”
- Silesian: “Ajsszrank”
- Slovenian: “ledenica”
- Spanish: “Nevero artificial”
- Spanish: “pozo de nieve”
- Swedish: “Iskällare”
- Ukrainian: “Льодовня”
- Ukrainian: “якчал”
- Western Frisian: “Iiskelder”
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