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Italian Introduction Turn of the century Italy saw the beginnings of industrialization in what was basically an agriculture society, so it was hardly surprising if a pasta factory (with combined flour mill) was named after Ceres, the roman corn goddess. The complex of buildings and courtyards still retains the divinity’s name in Italian – Cerere – to our days. Marked by the years, yet dignified nonetheless, the facades run along three sides – via Tiburtina, via degli Ausoni, piazza Sanniti – in Rome’s San Lorenzo district. Abandoned in the 1960’s the Cerere building is the example of the gradual, low-key conversion of an industrial building. The last fifteen years have seen it reoccupied, slowly but surely, and now some thirty people – artist for the most part – have set up studios inside it. Each tenant has cleaned up and restored his own particular space to different degrees, giving the handsome loft spaces a new lease of life. True, the common areas have been neglected, but that isn’t really part of a rental tenants responsibilities after all. | |
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