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Crespi d'Adda Public Washhouses

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    May 3, 2022

    The wash houses allowed all housewives to wash clothes without having to reach the river every time, with heavy baskets full of sheets and cloths.

    Silvio Benigno Crespi wrote that:
    “The public wash-house saves women from traveling a long way with the weight of linen on their backs or arms to go to the river, and run the risk of washing in its raging waters. It is divided into two parts, one of which is used to wash and the other to rinse and, in the latter, about one hundred liters of water per minute enter, which then passes into the first one above a special brush, and is immediately discharged in a manhole ".

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      May 3, 2022

      At the time, having a wash house built in the vicinity of homes and, in whose tanks, the water heated in the factory was made to flow, was considered an unimaginable convenience made available by the factory for the working population.

      The cover also made it possible to wash clothes even on rainy days.

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        May 3, 2022

        The wash house was built at the request of the Municipality, which imposed its construction on the Crespi family, in exchange for the granting of the permit to build the footbridge (1883) that still today connects Crespi d'Adda to Concesa, crossing both the water derivation channel and the river Adda.

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          Location: Capriate San Gervasio, Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy

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