Abbadatore course

Abbadatore course The abbadatore is the overseer of the covering of the limestone in the sulfur mines, also called sofara. From a technical point of view, the solfara is an ""underground deposit of calcareous-clayey sedimentary rocks rich in sulfur"". [3] The mineral present in the sulphites is present together with the gypsum and the marl or trubi of the so-called chalky-sulphurous formation of the upper Miocene; geologically similar to the Sicilian sulfites are the sulfites of Romagna and Marche. Generally speaking of solfara when there are excavation works of the land that are owned by a single owner or a single administration. Often there are galleries communicating between different solfare but also solfaria composed of single isolated galleries. The name of the sulphites usually originates from the name of the owner of the land, often a landowner, or from the anthroponym (oronyms) of the locality in which it is located. The productive structure of the Sicilian sulphites is a direct emanation of the feudal type production system that was in force in the 17th and 18th centuries in Sicily. Thus it is very tied to the agricultural traditions of the territory where the cereal and livestock large estates were widespread, so much so as to mark, in a particular way, the social development even before the economic one of central Sicily. The owner of the land, often a feudal lord, with an attitude typical of landowners, preferred a position rent rather than attempting an industrial enterprise aimed at exploiting the field, providing for reinvesting the profits in an improvement of the industrial structures. From an environmental point of view, everything also created a social tension between the mine, with the easy economic enrichment of the feudal lords, and the agricultural work in the fields, above all due to the primitive production technology of highly polluting limestone and limestone. Technology that ended up significantly impoverishing the productivity of the fields;