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The worker’s village is located on the hill between the industrial area and the inhabited centre of Montoro. It is a world apart surrounded by green. It can be reached through a road that enters in the Narni-Orte road opposite the entrance to the industrial complex.
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The village was built to face the needs of in loco, full-time labour in the electrochemical factory of the Terni Società per l’Industria e l’Elettricità (Terni Company for the Industry and the Electricity).
Therefore, in 1930 the building of the village was started and finished in 1931. It comprised 14 residential areas with 41 flats and 3 service facilities. In 1937 the church was added and the village hadn’t been modified until the end of the 20th century when the northern part was absorbed by a plant of minor architecture that ruined the overview of the original design.
The original complex had a rural appearance, following the idea of the owners that the workers should live in the countryside but near the factory, so that it would be easy to support the income with the products of the earth. Like other Italian worker’s villages, the houses were small cottage with independent entrance and surrounded by a personal green area with a vegetable garden and a wash-house. The area was bounded by a fence. The houses showed a certain formal care, despite being simply and cheaply made. They had plastered bands with different colour intensities and plastic mass-produced ornamentations. The swimming pool was remarkable, proof of the many possible uses of the reinforced concrete (springboard) and the use of the industrial mass production for industrial design (shaped benches and fences). Sadly, many elements that characterized and unified the complex have been deeply ruined by the changes made by the owners over time to modernize the village.
