The industrial city of Ivrea in the Unesco World Heritage Site: it is site number 54 for Italy

As of today,Italy has a new site on UNESCO’s World Heritage List: it is Ivrea, a 20th-century industrial city. The entry of the Piedmontese city into the list of sites of world cultural interest was decided today at the 42nd session of the UNESCO World Heritage committee, under way in Bahrain until July 4. Thus there are now 54 Italian sites on the UNESCO list.

“The industrial city of Ivrea,” reads the explanatory statement provided by UNESCO, “is located in the Piedmont region and developed as the headquarters of Olivetti, a manufacturer of typewriters, mechanical calculators and computers. It includes a large factory and buildings designed to serve administration and social services, as well as residential units. Designed by leading Italian urban planners and architects largely between the 1930s and 1960s, this architectural ensemble reflects the ideas of the Community Movement. Ivrea, a model of social design, expresses a modern vision of the relationship between industrial production and architecture.” The industrial city of Ivrea was in fact founded in 1908 by Camillo Olivetti, and its design reflects modern socio-cultural ideals that are still highly relevant today.

“Ivrea, the ideal city of the industrial revolution of the 20th century, is the 54th Italian Unesco site,” said Minister of Cultural Heritage Alberto Bonisoli. It is “an acknowledgement that goes to a humanistic conception of work proper to Adriano Olivetti, born and developed by the Community movement and fully brought to fruition here, in which the economic, social and cultural well-being of employees is considered an integral part of the production process.”

Along with the industrial city of Ivrea, the city-caliphate of Medina Azahara in Spain also joins the UNESCO World Heritage List. Red light, on the other hand, for the candidacy of the Prosecco Hills, which did not pass the Committee’s analysis in order to enter the Unesco list (opposed by the representatives of 7 countries out of the 21 that had to esper: in fact, two negative votes were needed for inclusion). However, the entry of the Prosecco Hills is postponed: Italy will have to better specify some aspects of the project before trying again.

The industrial city of Ivrea in the Unesco World Heritage Site: it is site number 54 for Italy

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