Officine Ettromeccaniche Negrello, Este, Northern Italy, April 2017

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Not too much info out there on this former Augustea workshops that up to thirty years ago was apparently the site of a “national wreckage”(?) factory. Over time, the stable was used as a ballroom, then abandoned and left "in the throes of toxins, bumps and vandals". In 2006, a Vicentine firm proposed a 34,000-square-foot mega-structure for tourism, with a hotel, restaurant, hostel, a bungalow area and sports facilities but that never materialised. Now the site sits abandoned in the centre of this historic northern Italian town.

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Relaxed explore with some nice bits and bobs knocking around. Some of the buildings were in good nick and completely sealed and others were, as you can see from the Google Earth screen grab (above), totally gone. As you can see from the pix below, I was rather taken by the big overhead metal sign with the company's name on!

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That's nice, it looks like it used to be quite a large factory, maybe the only employment for the town. I had a look at an Italian newspaper, it used to be a munitions factory and its going to be demolished to make way for a security citadel. I am quoting the newspaper article, dodgy translation.
 
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That's nice, it looks like it used to be quite a large factory, maybe the only employment for the town. I had a look at an Italian newspaper, it used to be a munitions factory and its going to be demolished to make way for a security citadel. I am quoting the newspaper article, dodgy translation.


Cheers for the extra info. Really difficult getting info on overseas sites. Even if you find stuff it's in another language and the web translators leave something to be desired!
 

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