Crete Senesi

The first cooperative consumption experiment is born in England

ASCIANO - In 1844 in Rochdale, a textile industrial center near Manchester



Andrè Gide wrote: "It is through the narrow door of utopia that you enter constructive reality". Over the course of history, this statement became the always sought and updated emblem of the cooperative movement which, according to historians, was born with the first cooperative established in Rochdale in 1844.


Certainly the deep roots of human solidarity, of the idea that it was possible to solve natural, meteorological or social problems by helping each other fraternally, certainly cannot be dated, since they have always accompanied man throughout his history.