# Crespi d'Adda: a mill village listed intact since 1995 > Crespi d'Adda, in the province of Bergamo, is a workers' village on the UNESCO list since 1995. No visiting hours or tour prices are in our records. URL: https://myitalia.it/attractions/crespi-dadda Last updated: 2026-09-11 Crespi d'Adda, a hamlet of Capriate San Gervasio in the province of Bergamo, has been on the UNESCO list since 1995 as an exceptional example of a 19th and early 20th century workers' village that survives substantially intact. ## UNESCO since 1995, criteria (iv) and (v) Crespi d'Adda was inscribed in 1995 under criteria (iv) and (v), as a workers' village of the 19th and early 20th century that survives substantially intact. The village was founded by the industrialist Cristoforo Benigno Crespi and enlarged by his son Silvio. What makes it a listing rather than a factory is everything around the mill. ## Houses, school, clinic, theater, free power The village has multi-family houses with kitchen gardens, a clinic, a school, a theater, a church, the owners' castle and a hydroelectric plant that supplied free electricity. That list is the argument. A family that owned the jobs also owned the housing, the schooling, the medicine, the evenings out and the light in the kitchen, and built their own castle in the same place. The social contract of a company town is written in that list of buildings. The longer read on what that meant for the people inside it is at [a company town on the UNESCO list](/stories/a-company-town-on-the-unesco-list). ## No visiting hours are published No visiting hours are published in the sources checked for this page, and no tour prices either (2026). Crespi is a hamlet of a working comune, so walking through it does not depend on a ticket desk. Getting inside the church, the theater or the castle is another matter, and that is a question for the local tourist office in Capriate San Gervasio before you set the day. ## Lombardy's 10 sites, and 8,000 years of rock art Lombardy hosts 10 of Italy's 62 UNESCO sites, more than any other region, with Tuscany and Veneto next on 9 each (2026). Four of the ten are serial sites shared with other regions. At the far end of the same list sits the rock art of Valcamonica, inscribed in 1979 under criteria (iii) and (vi): more than 140,000 carved symbols and figures across more than 8,000 years, on a property of 432.3 hectares with a buffer zone of 1,018.23. The two are the widest span Lombardy's list offers. Valcamonica records eight millennia of people carving rock; Crespi records one family's industrial project. 1979 was the year of Italy's first round of inscriptions, but the source does not say Valcamonica was the first Italian site, so that claim is not made here. The rest is at [Lombardy](/regions/lombardia) and [UNESCO sites in Lombardy](/unesco/in-lombardia). ## FAQ ### Why is Crespi d'Adda a UNESCO site? It was listed in 1995, under criteria (iv) and (v), as an exceptional 19th and early 20th century workers' village that survives substantially intact: houses with gardens, a school, a clinic, a theater, a church, a hydroelectric plant and the owners' castle. ### Where is Crespi d'Adda? It is a hamlet of Capriate San Gervasio, in the province of Bergamo in Lombardy. The village was founded by the industrialist Cristoforo Benigno Crespi and enlarged by his son Silvio. ### Are there opening hours for Crespi d'Adda? None are published in the sources this site could verify in 2026, neither for the village nor for guided tours. Ask the tourist office in Capriate San Gervasio before planning a visit around the interiors. ### How many UNESCO sites does Lombardy have? 10 of Italy's 62 (2026), more than any other region, with Tuscany and Veneto next on 9 each. Four of the ten are serial sites shared with other regions, so six, Crespi d'Adda and Valcamonica among them, are Lombardy's alone. ## Sources | Fact | Source | Confidence | Valid until | |---|---|---|---| | Crespi d'Adda, frazione di Capriate San Gervasio in provincia di Bergamo, e' iscritta nella Lista UNESCO dal 1995 con i criteri (iv) e (v) come esempio eccezionale di villaggio operaio otto-novecentesco rimasto sostanzialmente intatto. | [Ministero della Cultura - Ufficio UNESCO](https://unesco.cultura.gov.it/projects/crespi-dadda/) | medium | 2099-12-31 | | L'arte rupestre della Valcamonica e' iscritta nella Lista UNESCO dal 1979 con i criteri (iii) e (vi) e conta oltre 140.000 tra simboli e figure incise su un arco di oltre 8.000 anni; la property misura 432,3 ettari con una buffer zone di 1.018,23 ettari. | [Ministero della Cultura - Ufficio UNESCO](https://unesco.cultura.gov.it/projects/arte-rupestre-della-valcamonica/) | medium | 2099-12-31 | | La Lombardia e' la regione italiana che ospita piu' siti UNESCO: 10 dei 62 (2026) | [UNESCO World Heritage Centre](https://whc.unesco.org/en/statesparties/it/); [Ministero della Cultura - Ufficio UNESCO](https://unesco.cultura.gov.it/projects/); [Wikidata (query SPARQL su P1435=Q9259, P17=Q38, P757, P131)](https://query.wikidata.org/sparql) | medium | 2027-08-31 | ## Image https://media.myitalia.it/media/region.lombardia.1600.jpg Author: Ximonic (Simo Räsänen). License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0). Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Landscape_from_Vesio,_Tremosine_sul_Garda,_Brescia,_Lombardia,_Italy,_2025_September.jpg ## Other languages - it: https://myitalia.it/it/attrazioni/crespi-dadda.md - es: https://myitalia.it/es/atracciones/crespi-dadda.md - fr: https://myitalia.it/fr/attractions/crespi-dadda.md - de: https://myitalia.it/de/sehenswuerdigkeiten/crespi-dadda.md