The Old Macaroni Factory was built in 1859 by the Lucini brothers of Intra, on the shores of Lake Maggiore.
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The Old Macaroni Factory was the first place in Australia to produce pasta and is the oldest Italian building on the continent.
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The former factory is now a tourist attraction and a restaurant that serves dishes made from the recipes brought from Italy more than a century ago.
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Some rooms are decorated with 150-year-old frescoes.
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A fresco on a ceiling depicts one of Bellinzona's three castles.
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There are several stone houses in the countryside around Hepburn Springs that were built by Swiss and Italian stonemasons who emigrated to Australia in search of gold.
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In Australia, migrants found mainly sandstone, more soft than the granite of the Swiss Alps.
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The houses and huts of the settlers were eventually purchased by local families. In many cases they are derelict, but the law prohibits them from being torn down.
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The drystone walls the emigrants built have survived through the ages.
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The former home of a descendant of an immigrant from Bergamo obviously did not like to be disturbed.
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Parma villa was built in 1864 by Fabrizio Crippa, who had come to Australia ten years earlier from Monza.
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The villa is a listed heritage property.
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A history of immigrant architecture in Australia.
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Swiss and Italian immigrants who settled in and around Hepburn Springs, Victoria have left a legacy in the stone buildings they constructed. (pictures and texts: Luigi Jorio, swissinfo.ch)
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