(Friends of Crespi)
In the Village:
Ristorante "Antica osteria da Mualdo"
TEL 02 90937077 - website
Bar-tavola calda "Villaggio Cafè"
TEL 02 90980107 - website
In the Village there is a guest house, very close to the Information Point:
for further information and prices send us an email.
In the surroundings there are hotels and b&b: for further information and prices send us an email.
Guided Visits
ENGLISH SPEAKING GUIDES AVALIABLE
BOOKINGS: EMAIL TO: info@villaggiocrespi.it
OR VIA FAX AT: +39 02 90964618
Our guided visits include:
- Information Point with an exhibition of photographs
- Prepared guides, living in Crespi
- Maps of the Village for all the partecipants
- A booklet about Crespi d'Adda
- Use of historical photographs during the visit
Discover with us the history, the people and the curiosities of the workers' Village of Crespi d'Adda. Our guides come from or live in the Village: they will let you discover the fascinating past of this unique place as well as the present of the Village where… "the time has stopped".
PRIVATE GUIDED VISITS:
BY RESERVATION ONLY
You can plan your visit choosing the date and time.
Allow two to three hours for the visit.
Typically groups are not bigger than 20-25 people, but we also accept bookings from smaller groups : please contact us for a quote.
How to book a visit?
To book a visit, or to request further information, contact us at info@villaggiocrespi.it or by fax at +39 02 90964618.
How to get to Crespi?
See the page How to get
Why visit the Village of Crespi?
Everybody who is visiting the village of Crespi d'Adda soon realises this is a very unique place. You will notice the series of cottages lined up in order, the same low fences for every house, the carefully cultivated vegetable gardens, the long row of workshops and the very high chimneys, always visible while you are walking around the village. Besides, you are struck by the strange medieval castle, the huge pyramid monument in the cemetery…
The Crespi Village is a place where time has stopped: in fact, Crespi d'Adda has perfectly preserved many signs of its past. A careful visitor will notice how this place - together with its history, its houses, its factory and its river - can bring you back in time: to the times when the founders of the village - the Crespi family - succeeded to give birth to an ideal company town, where they combined the workers' needs with the entrepreneur's needs.
Crespi d'Adda is a genuine realisation of ideal city, strictly bound to the echoes of the utopian models of the nineteenth century, and an authentic testimony of the process of industrialisation in Italy, the process which, here and elsewhere, brought the man from the rural to the modern industrial epoch.