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CRESPI D’ADDA – L’Insediamento Industriale

"Industrial village of Crespi d'Adda"

During the XIX session of the World Heritage Committee meeting held in Berlin in 1995 on September 4 – 9, the committee decided to inscribe Crespi d’Adda (an area in Capriate San Gervasio in the Province of Bergamo) on the World Heritage List.

Crespi d'Adda in Capriate San Gervasio in Lombardy is an outstanding example of the 19th and early 20th century 'company towns' built in Europe and North America by enlightened industrialists to meet the workers' needs.

The site is still remarkably intact and is partly used for industrial purposes, although changing economic and social conditions now threaten its survival.

The committee also congratulated the Italian authorities for the coherence of its conservation programme that had preserved the architectural and social integrity of this site.
This recognition also underlined the value and significance of the fact that the working village of Crespi d’Adda, that is the only one of its kind, sees it as its duty to bequeath the historical, cultural and architectural values it has kept intact to future generations.

Inscription on the Unesco World Heritage List: 1995

Criteria for Acceptance into the Unesco World Heritage List
Id. n. 730 1995 C (iv) (v)

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