urban exploration
My intent is to visit the city where i live, Milan, in Italy. Abandoned places, and anything that skips to usual views. I don't infiltrate without permission, usually i just take a peeck from outside, if there's nobody to let me in.

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Sunday, January 18, 2004

From the Nestlè company

 

 

We decide to have a complete view of the abandoned area from the top of the modern glass buildings. Will they let us in? Once we get to the caretaker’s lodge we notice the gate is open and that there is nobody to stop us from getting inside. So we go on. This is an adventure itself, with no need to infiltrate an abandoned building. We advance through a maze of passages and concrete pillars, searching for an open door to go up stairs. We cross only two attendants chatting without even noticing our presence, and a businessman on the phone that doesn’t really care of us. And I expexted that someone would at least stop me and ask me who I were! Probably in these buildings there are so many people working and so many visitors between clients and providers that it’s not unusual to seee two strangers walking around. Unfortunately we don’t find any open passage, the door to the stairs needs a password too. We notice that confining with the abandoned area there is a  two level car park, so we go towards that direction. There is no problem at all to get inside the place and nobody seems to see us. We enter the stairs, a dark, cold, humid space, not friendly at all. We go at the top, and from outside we can enjoy a view good enough for our purposes. We lean against the balustrade to find a way to get inside the abandoned area. In theory it wouldn’t be hard from no place, cause the only obstacle is a series of those steel barriers used to keep people in an organized queue. But we are afraid that someone could see us so we are looking for a hidden place. Right next to the back exit of the stairs there’s a barrier already moved. So we go down stairs again on the landing behind the car park, hidden from everybody’s view. All i’d have to do is a short jump or a longer step, and i’ll find myself inside the area. But i’ll wait a better moment this time too. I have a positive impression in any case: it shouldn’t be dangerous, cause i can tell asite is ready to start. Everything has been cleaned from garbage and weeds, the ground is perfectly flat and there are signs certifying the presence of the site. It’s strange because it’s a working day, but there is nobody around. They probably postponed too. The factory is very nice, big, wide, like the ones of the beginning of the last century. Buildings with bricks alternate to buildings in concrete: i wonder if it has been by chance, or if the brick ones were more important than the others, or if the concrete ones just arrived after the brick ones. In any case i don’t think there are any clandestines living here at the moment. Probably there’s more attention to it because of the importance to the history of the place.

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