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The industrial complex milled wheat and produced pasta. It is located suburbs of Todi, near the train station Todi Ponterio.
It comprised many building that, following specific productive logic, were connected by a sheltered shared area that gave access to the workspaces. The strong connection between the factory and the local history is testified by the different stages of production.
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It all started at the beginning of the ‘30s when Colombo Cappelletti purchased a small watermill. He already was co-owner with his brother of a company for the transport of coal, wood and sometimes cereals for a decade.
The watermill was soon transformed in an industrial mill and a pasta factory was built on its side (1934). The factory was designed by the architect Dino Lilli, expert of rationalistic industrial architecture. The plant provided flours to the biggest pasta factories of central Italy and more, but the War challenged its activity: in 1944 it was almost completely destroyed by the bombings made by the Allies because of the almost total absorption of the production by the German armies. Finished in 1949, the new plant lived a great first period thanks to the new machinery and mill that increased the production. The production continued through thick and thin and company issues until 1960.
After a long period of inactivity the building was purchased by the Spazzoni company that stopped its decay using a small part of it as a warehouse for corn and house offices.
In 2009 part of the chimney of the pasta factory was demolished for safety reasons.
