Mary Fleur, who we are

This is an old story that explains how our adventure began. It was the winter of 1976, Mr. Antonio had already been a hotelier for several years in Torre Pedrera, a town near Viserba, but he wasn't happy with his situation... in fact he was renting and wanted to change his life... well not completely, he loved his job to which he dedicated himself with all of himself but he wanted something of his own, his own creature to grow and improve over the years... he was looking for a smaller hotel to buy! Unfortunately he didn't have much money saved up but a lot of determination, pride in succeeding in the enterprise and courage! So... let's go back to our old story... Mr. Antonio has spread the word about his desire and like many winter afternoons he is playing cards at the bar with his friends. Suddenly Renzo, one of them, enters and says: "Toni, I found the right hotel for you!” My father stands up and doesn’t even finish the game…the cards remain on the table. After a while my father enters the Mary Fleur, a small hotel with 25 rooms, a little neglected on the outside but a jewel on the inside…wallpaper and private bathrooms in all the rooms, wonder of wonders for the 70s…my father couldn’t believe his eyes…what to do? Block the deal immediately or procrastinate, discuss it with the family and then decide?! It was an opportunity to be seized on the fly and there was no time to waste…he decided to seize it….half an hour later there was a purchase request. When he returned home my father notified my mother with a “I bought the hotel!” and she was speechless! The image still fresh in my memory of stories is that my father really touched the sky with a finger and from that moment he began to renovate the hotel and now we continue to do it!…his first work?…painting the entire outside by himself to make it blue …but that's another story!