This old cement factory, just past the train station, is surrounded by apartment buildings and shops. A development plan is currently underway to build a hotel and conference center on this site, incorporating some of the old buildings. There will also be a space for "temporary exhibits." I'm wondering if that means art? In any case, the smokestacks will be saved.
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The smokestacks are beautiful, surely better than the tower bell of Sant'Achille!
By the way, cement or concrete?
Well those mighty smokestacks will be the welcome sight to tourists. I mean like the Eiffel Tower is to people visiting Paris.
Not far from where I live there was a cement factory and train tracks and all sorts of things that made it a very large complex and it is completely gone now and replaced by businesses.
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Sounds interesting. At least they'll be a very distinctive landmark.
Poet - I agree, they are much better than that horrid bell tower! As for cement or concrete...in Italian it's a "cementeria" where they make "cement" which translates as both "cement" and "concrete", so I'm not sure!
Abe - I guess these are the "twin towers" of Molfetta!
Hilda - I think it's nice that they are saving them rather than razing them down!
Looks like a perfect place for an Art exhibition centre!
Maybe this should have been used for the The Church of Sant'Achille instead of the "modern" one they built. I actually am a huge fan of modern, but the smokestack bell tower didn't do much for me either.
What great buildings! I am glad they will keep the smokestacks! There is something similar to the project you describe in Catania and it is one of the coolest spaces in town--and it attracts excellent concerts as well and has a small museum too.
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