Crespi d'Adda is “The Workers’ Village” in Lombardy, and stands as a unique testament of industrial architecture. The UNESCO World Heritage Site was constructed from the late 1800s through the 1920s by the Crespi Family, who were industrialists in the area. The family built an entire town for their factor employee and their whole families who were given homes, space for gardens and provided all the available amenities of the time.

Employees of the Crespi family were completely taken care of by their employers, and the village includes a cotton mill, the Crespi family castle, church, cemetery, and washhouse. Spending a day in Crespi d'Adda is like spending a day back in time more than one hundred years ago. The site as it was built is still almost completely intact and is still used for some industrial purposes.

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