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Firstly, the industrial complex designed and built the machinery for local agriculture. It was started in 1890 as a small settlement close to Porta Spoletina, northern part of the Terni walls. Its construction was made on the initiative of the technician Antonio Bosco from Turin. Initially the complex comprised a small machine shop and annexed bronze foundry.
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Once the production was oriented on iron and steel for metallic machinery and on objects fused in bronze (1910), the Officine realized important achievement in the industrial field and extended on the area between the Porta and the Serra torrent. It was then extended on the vast area north of the strada Spoletina (o Flaminia). In 1939 the area, up to the train station, became a small industrial town of circa 40.000 square metres, with a covered area of 20.000 square metres.
During the Second World War some buildings were destroyed. Fortunately, with financing from credit institutions, the buildings were restored. The crisis of the mechanical field from 1958 and 1963 caused the closing of the foundry, the afflux of capital from aboard and the retreat of the Bosco family (1969). In the ‘70s the company specialized in the provision of machinery for chemical and oil industry.
The complex, partially demolished in 1985, was renovated with EU funds and transformed in the current multimedia area. Today the area is covered by a parking place, a media centre and a school.
