We offer you an unprecedented cultural walk in Lomazzo, to discover the elegant industrial complex of the late 19th century Somaini cotton mill, now transformed into the “Como Next” technological center, and its elegant workers’ village, which develops in an orderly manner along a street of the country.
The route will start in front of the Somaini villa, where participants will be involved in a storytelling about the life of Francesco Somaini, the great cotton industrialist who founded this elegant factory here at the end of the nineteenth century; subsequently, they will be accompanied to discover the beautiful structures of the ancient production area, tall, slender and soberly decorated, so beautiful as to give prestige and esteem to the industry itself.
This will be followed by a guided tour of the former boarding school for foreign workers, then run by the nuns.
Here, it will be possible to access the large internal rooms, once used as community rooms, and now transformed into private professional studios.
The route will end in the elegant Viale Somaini, a real workers’ village which developed entirely along a street, now public.
We will show you how the different building types depend on different worker or clerical hierarchies, but above all how everything manages to blend correctly and coexist harmoniously along a road.
After all, the beauty, harmony and elegance of things always pay off, not only in aesthetic terms, but also in social and economic terms.

Booking required.

Phone: +39 338 3090011

Email: info@villago.it

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