With regards to Torrebelvicino and Pievebelvicino we cannot talk about real organised neighbourhoods but rather separate inhabited centres for office staff and manual workers, which were built on the banks of the Leogra from 1878 onwards.

The dwellings(1) of the Workers’ Neighbourhood in Torrebelvicino were made up of some two or three-storey terraced houses with the same kind of allocated green areas as those in Schio. The more elevated and central location of the school building with respect to the small workers’ settlement would indicate an attempt at integration with the rest of the town.

The Workers’ Neighbourhood in Pievebelvicino was wider and more spread out over an orthogonal road network, and the hierarchy of the employees was revealed by the rather more marked difference in the layout of the houses. The Manager’s eclectic-style small villa and garden, which has recently been renovated along modern lines with the addition of an open-air theatre, remained isolated from the rest of the neighbourhood which was concentrated in an area bordered on one side by the Rossi Works and on the other by the old town. The unadorned workers’ houses(2) were built on more than one floor using inferior materials, while those of the office staff(3) displayed a certain dignity even externally by the use of gables on the house-fronts and over all door and window cornices. All the dwellings were provided with modest allocations of green areas(4).