Description
Bridges and boardwalks to cross the river
Today, the only remains of the large Brothers Dell'Acqua textile factory that stood here between 1800 and 1900 are the two pedestrian boardwalks that connected the different departments, built in the '20s.
Dell'Acqua cotton mill of Legnano in an
image of the early '900.
Around 1870 Carlo Dell'Acqua entered the company of his
cousins "Brothers Dell'Acqua and C. ", a local textile
company that, already at the Industrial Exhibition of Milan
in 1881, became important for the production of wrought
fustain. At the end of the nineteenth century "Brothres
Dell'Acqua" company expanded the range of its articles and,
imitating the English fabrics, began to produce satin and
fabrics for shirts.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the plant, whose
machinery operated thanks to a considerable driving force
with two hydraulic motors, also introduced a dyeing plant.
In these years the company had 500 frames and employed about
300 workers.
The surviving bridges were walkways inside the plant,
necessary to connect the different departments born on both
sides of the river. Made in 1924 of reinforced concrete with
a modern and clean line, innovative for the time, the part
facing the street and not hidden by the walls of the factory
was instead "masked" in historicist forms, like the rest of
the factory, internally avant-garde but with an external
"skin" reminiscent of the past.
Deepening
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