Shipment dock

Hinge Factory Tour

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July 28th 2011
Bruna's family owns a Hinge Factory and both her and Mario work there. I was taken on a tour by Bruna's father who is 87 and founded the factory in the 60s. He was a nice man and talked a lot. He could only speak italian so that was a bit of a problem. Luckily, Alberto was there to translate. They produce 600 different shapes and sizes of hinges and make 50,000 a day. The metal sta ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more