Crespi d'Adda

Crespi d'Adda
Frazione
The town's company-built school, church and employee houses
Crespi d'Adda Location of Crespi d'Adda in Italy
Coordinates: 45°35′48″N 9°32′10″E / 45.59667°N 9.53611°E / 45.59667; 9.53611
Country	Italy
Region	Lombardy
Province	Bergamo (BG)
Comune	Capriate San Gervasio
Elevation [1]	465 m (1,526 ft)
Population  (2017)[1]
• Total	450
Demonym	Crespesi
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	84070
Dialing code	(+39) 0974
Patron saint	Saint Maurus
Website	Official website
UNESCO World Heritage Site
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Criteria	Cultural: iv, v
Reference	730
Inscription	1995 (19th Session)

Crespi d'Adda is a village in northern Italian and hamlet (frazione) of Capriate San Gervasio, a municipality in the province of Bergamo, Lombardy. It is a historic settlement and an outstanding example of the 19th and early 20th-century "company towns" built in Europe and North America by enlightened industrialists to meet the workers' needs. The site is still intact and is partly used for industrial purposes, although changing economic and social conditions now threaten its survival.^[2] Since 1995 it has been on UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites.