Black and white photograph: depicts the main façade of the spinning mill, in Palladian villa style, with a gate with rounded iron railings at the top. At the centre of the upper part is a round white stone clock, in front of the spinning mill, grass and land. Behind it is a clear sky with a few white clouds on the left and the red brick chimney of the furnace.

The Romanin-Jacur spinning mill, main façade (Marco Trevisan, Bazzmann+Venipedia).

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In the province of Venice, in Salzano, the Romanin-Jacur spinning mill still preserves the structures and memory of one of the most important silk complexes in the Veneto region between the late 19th and mid-20th centuries. Active until 1952, for decades it employed over 200 women, becoming a rare example of female emancipation through silk spinning. Its production included yarns destined for the Venetian Arsenal, linking rural production to the great shipbuilding industry of the Serenissima.

Built by Leone Romanin-Jacur in 1872, the Filanda is an old silk factory consisting of a central body, where the machine and spinning room were located, and two side wings with a portico.It undoubtedly represents an emblematic case of a harmonious and virtuous combination of the natural environment, agriculture and proto-industry:from an architectural point of view, it admirably takes up the characteristic elements of the manor house behind which it is symmetrically built;from a functional point of view, it used for spinning the water decanted and purified in the canals and ponds of the nearby

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