# Ivrea, cité industrielle d’Olivetti (Ivrea, città industriale del XX secolo) - URL : https://www.inexpeditions.com/en/in100/l-usine-faite-ville - Language : English - Publisher : in:Expeditions SAS, 8 rue Lacépède, 75005 Paris, bonjour@inexpeditions.com - Place : Ivrea, cité industrielle d’Olivetti (Ivrea, città industriale del XX secolo), Ivrea, Piémont, IT (https://www.ivreacittaindustriale.it/) > In Ivrea, at the foot of the Piedmont Alps, Olivetti built a whole town around its typewriters: glass-walled workshops, a nursery, a canteen, social… A factory that built a town ## Ivrea, cité industrielle d’Olivetti (Ivrea, città industriale del XX secolo) ivreacittaindustriale.it In Ivrea, at the foot of the Piedmont Alps, Olivetti built a whole town around its typewriters: glass-walled workshops, a nursery, a canteen, social services, housing for workers and managers, designed by leading Italian architects from the 1930s to the 1960s. UNESCO listed it in 2018. Camillo Olivetti founded the company in 1908; his son Adriano turned it into a social project. His 1945 book gave rise in 1947 to the Movimento Comunità, which held that industry should return its profits to the territory through social services and culture. A team sees here what a company owes the town that keeps it alive. The Welcome Tour leaves the Visitor Centre on Via Jervis on the first Saturday of the month at 2.30 pm: 2.5 hours in Italian and English, €20 per person, including a flat in Talponia, the semicircular housing by Gabetti and Isola (1968-1971), and the nursery by Figini and Pollini (1939-1941). The Visitor Centre also books guided group tours. Photo credits : PROCOPIODIMODENA (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0) ; Ambra75 (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0) ; Plumbago Capensis (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0) ; Davide Mauro (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0) ; André Corboz (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0) --- Source : https://www.inexpeditions.com/en/in100/l-usine-faite-ville · in:Expeditions, learning expeditions and impact retreats since 2015.