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Washhouse in via Morardo

The washhouse in Via Morardo before its reconstruction in the 1930sThe wash-house and washerwomen at the end of the 19th centuryThe strengthening of the aqueduct, built by the Siro Andrea Carli administration, facilitated the construction in 1831 of the first public wash-house in Sanremo, it seems on a small piece of land near the Market Square and along the right bank of the San Romolo stream.


The washhouse downsized in the 1990sIn 1875, in approving the construction of a public wash-house behind the Monastery of the Turchine in Via Morardo, it was established its water supply with the deviation of the waters coming from the fountains Capitolo, Palma and San Sebastiano.

(free elaboration from various sources and authors)