Editing Crespi d'Adda (section)

=== The factory and the houses ===
The factory started its activity in July 1878 and its production was totally dedicated to the cotton processing and the production of textiles.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|last=Cortesi|first=Luigi|title=Crespi d'Adda, villaggio ideale del lavoro.|publisher=Grafica Monti s.n.c.- Bergamo|pages=58–71}}</ref> With [[Silvio Crespi]] there was an enlargement of the factory, thanks to the project made by Pietro Brunati, and there was a new inauguration in 1894 at the presence of [[Margherita of Savoy|Queen Margherita]]. The new productive lines began to work systematically in 1896. This factory was the centre of the village and all the inhabitants worked there. The factory was the working core of the village and the life of the workers depended on the factory production. Every person in the village had his own house and they were all the same, except for the managers, the doctor and the priest who had more luxurious ones. Initially, in the project of [[Cristoforo Crespi]], there was no idea of a hierarchy, but the situation developed because the social environment of the time changed and showed different levels of wealth.<ref name=":2" />  Throughout its history, the factory underwent several structural changes in order to adjust to changes in industrial production and manufacturing of textile.<ref name=":2" />

In 1973 Legler, a textile company, bought the factory and started to work until 2003, when the factory closed because of bankruptcy.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Legler, dopo 125 anni chiude Crespi|url=https://www.ecodibergamo.it/stories/Economia/legler-dopo-125-anninbspchiude-crespi_15499_11/|access-date=2020-12-08|website=www.ecodibergamo.it|language=it}}</ref>

Today the factory is an open air museum of industrial archeology.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|title=Il valore e la storia {{!}} Villaggio Crespi d'Adda|url=http://www.villaggiocrespi.it/crespidadda/il-valore-la-storia-e-la-architettura-di-crespi-d-adda/|access-date=2020-12-08|website=www.villaggiocrespi.it|archive-date=2020-02-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200225224855/http://villaggiocrespi.it/crespidadda/il-valore-la-storia-e-la-architettura-di-crespi-d-adda/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
[[File:2012-04-25 Crespi d'Adda abitazioni monofamiliari.jpg|thumb|Workers' houses]]