Since 1906, the bend of the Adda River below the cliff of the Visconti Castle in Trezzo has been home to the Taccani Hydroelectric Plant, designed by the architect Gaetano Moretti for the textile industrialist Benigno Crespi, creating an unusual and fascinating combination of architectural styles and historical events. This is the most interesting historical power plant in all Lombardy, both from an architectural point of view (it is a modernist design in a harmonious relationship with the surrounding environment) and from a technological one (the turbine chamber coincides with the intake chamber, in order to eliminate the shunt channel). The complex is clad with Adda stump, the characteristic local stone, and has battlements that recall the remains of the Visconti castle above.

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