Former Tobacco Factory

The tobacco factory was opened in 1927 on commission by Aldo Finzi, former Undersecretary of the Interior (1922) forced to leave the office after being accused of involvement in the Matteotti crime. In the 1930s Finzi definitively left political life and became one of the largest tobacco producers in southern Lazio. He ran the Giulianello tobacco factory until his death in the raid on the Fosse Ardeatine in 1945. Much of the Giulianello population was occupied by the tobacco industry.

Il museo

The tobacco was collected in the fields and dried in the square (now Piazza Umberto I). The women and the boys sewed the tobacco leaves one by one, put on strings within wood frames (banchitti) that were used to keep them spaced and taut, and favour their drying process. The frames were exposed to the sun for a week, then the tobacco collected in tufts was hung in the houses and it was then checked by the employees of the tobacco factory. The control was used to verify whether the quantity of tobacco collected corresponded to what had been declared, to avoid smuggling. Once the control was passed, the producers could deliver their harvest to the tobacconist. Here the work consisted in selecting the tobacco leaves according to their color, which indicated their quality. Once selected, the leaves were stacked on top of each other to form bales, which were sent to the Tobacco Monopoly in Rome by rail.

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Il Comune di Cori

The working day in the tobacco factory began at 7.30 with a siren alarm and ended at the sound of the same at 15.30, an hour was allowed for the lunch break from 12 to 13 There were about 20 seasonal workers, men and women , who at the end of the shift were checked to avoid theft and smuggling, and in addition to them an employee and three night guards. All of them were transferred to the Tobacco monopoly in Rome in 1965 when the Giulianello tobacco factory was closed. In the 1970s the building became the seat of the lower secondary school (until 2016) and it has ever since hosted the decentralized offices of the Municipality of Cori (still nowadays), as well as various associations and activities including, C.N.G.E.I Scount, the Management Committee of the Natural Monument of Giulianello Lake, the analysis laboratory of the local health office, offices of the local police, day center for adults with disabilities “L’isola si Nemo”, the cultural association “Chi dice donna”, provisional seat of the “Center for Documentation of Lands and Collective Rights in Lazio and in the former Provinces of the Papal State”.

Former Tobacco Factory

Il museo

Il Comune di Cori

POLIS-È-MIA – codice unico progetto F82JI7000100001 – con D.D. G14038 del 18/10/2017 parte di “Giovani 2017: Aggregazione, prevenzione e supporto”

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