{"id":11958,"date":"2025-05-23T15:20:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T13:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.breradesigndistrict.it\/?p=11958"},"modified":"2025-05-23T15:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T13:22:09","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.breradesigndistrict.it\/en\/news\/curiosita\/spazzini-via-madonnina\/","title":{"rendered":"The street sweepers of Via Madonnina","raw":"The street sweepers of Via Madonnina"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Via Madonnina was like a village in the centre of the city<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Brera was once a red light district in the heart of Milan.

Yes, what is now the city’s most elegant and elite district was once a working-class area.

At number 6 on Via Madonnina, until about the 1970s, there was the garbage collector’s depot, while at number 23 there was a closed house.

Every morning they went out with their carts equipped with buckets and brooms and returned at the end of work. During the week they all lived together, like a real community, as none of them had a car to get around and it was difficult to get back to the family between shifts, someone occasionally hired a bicycle.

The street sweepers were then moved elsewhere and house number 6 became a warehouse for impounded cars, later a council house, which still exists today.

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Brera was once a red light district in the heart of Milan.

Yes, what is now the city's most elegant and elite district was once a working-class area.

At number 6 on Via Madonnina, until about the 1970s, there was the garbage collector's depot, while at number 23 there was a closed house.

Every morning they went out with their carts equipped with buckets and brooms and returned at the end of work. During the week they all lived together, like a real community, as none of them had a car to get around and it was difficult to get back to the family between shifts, someone occasionally hired a bicycle.

The street sweepers were then moved elsewhere and house number 6 became a warehouse for impounded cars, later a council house, which still exists today.

Photo: Repubblica Milano<\/em><\/p>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false,"raw":""},"author":2,"featured_media":11959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_it_post_content":"\n\n\n

Brera un tempo era un quartiere a luci rosse, nel cuore della citt\u00e0 di Milano.

Ebbene s\u00ec, quello che oggi \u00e8 il quartiere pi\u00f9 elegante e di \u00e9lite della citt\u00e0 un tempo era zona popolare.

Al civico 6 di via Madonnina, fino agli anni 70 circa, si trovava il deposito degli spazzini, mentre al civico 23 si trovava una casa chiusa.

Tutte le mattine uscivano con i carretti muniti di secchi e scope per poi fare rientro a fine lavoro. In settimana vivevano tutti insieme, come una vera comunit\u00e0, in quanto nessuno di loro aveva l\u2019automobile per spostarsi ed era difficile rientrare dalla famiglia tra un turno e l\u2019altro, qualcuno ogni tanto noleggiava una bicicletta.

Gli spazzini vennero poi trasferiti altrove ed il civico 6 divenne un deposito per auto sequestrate, successivamente una casa popolare, esistente tutt\u2019oggi.

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Brera was once a red light district in the heart of Milan.

Yes, what is now the city's most elegant and elite district was once a working-class area.

At number 6 on Via Madonnina, until about the 1970s, there was the garbage collector's depot, while at number 23 there was a closed house.

Every morning they went out with their carts equipped with buckets and brooms and returned at the end of work. During the week they all lived together, like a real community, as none of them had a car to get around and it was difficult to get back to the family between shifts, someone occasionally hired a bicycle.

The street sweepers were then moved elsewhere and house number 6 became a warehouse for impounded cars, later a council house, which still exists today.

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