Who we are
Rosamaria
as a child she wanted to be a pastry chef, a bookseller and a scholar of ancient things. Today he deals with law, ethical values, cultural innovation and corporate social responsibility. She has always loved the sea, art and poetry and is fascinated by wine, oil and sourdough. He has traveled extensively by plane and has friends all over the globe. He now lives between Rome, Calabria and Sicily and has traded the plane for the train, but has not yet learned how to leave without tears.
Sylvia
he has recently lived in L'Aquila for love, but keeps in his heart the bond with the Eternal City. As a child she organized theater performances and wanted to be an actress, even if she enjoyed cooking and Sicilian embroidery. Today she is a happy mother and deals with law and innovative projects of female entrepreneurship. Her Sicilian and Calabrian roots give her a great nostalgia for her South, where she always seems to return too little.
Dominic
from Sicily he moved to Milan to study and then descended more and more to the South over the years for work until he stopped in Malta. As a child he loved history and statistics, today he works in international finance, but he has never denied his first passions which he continues to cultivate. He has learned to cook meat sauce and baked potatoes excellently and if it weren't for his wife he would only eat that.
The Project
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PATH is a project-cultural itinerary of responsible and relational tourism all-round that comes from the initiative of three Sicilian brothers who - scattered for university studies and then for work between Rome, Milan and abroad - also inherit from their paternal grandfather the love for Calabria and decide to buy and renovate - enhancing and respecting the original materials that existed and have been able to recover - one of the first historic houses (called "Casette") of San Ferdinando, the grandfather's birthplace, located within the central urban fabric, and to open it to tourists.
A historic house - with its emotional load of lived life - reborn respecting its original Calabrian identity and memory. A host home which, in its ability to harmoniously combine tradition and modernity, becomes a place for the visitor where the mind relaxes and, immersed in the precious essentiality, the slow reunion, the slow getting to know each other, the simple life re-emerges. But also a house where a town finds its centre, its beauty, its soul, its history. In fact, San Ferdinando is called "Li Casetti" in the area due to the presence of this particular housing typology.
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The project begins its journey in 2015and one of its most critical phases concerns the recovery and restructuring of the building identified, in original conditions of semi-abandonment. The goal is to multiply the attractiveness coefficient of San Ferdinando and the surrounding area- and of Calabria in general- starting from the ancient concept of southern hospitality: transmitting memory by looking to the future with an innovative model of responsible and slow tourism that is based on the urban recovery and enhancement (according to the canons of beauty and respect), of traditions, relationships and landscape, artistic and cultural. An integrated and fully organized project that creates a path of virtuous rebirth of places and communities and that values, respects and defends all that is beautiful.
The second phase of the Project begins in 2020 and sees the creation of a network of people, producers, structures, services, associations, institutions capable of sharing a vision, a methodology, an ethical and behavioral charter that responds to the same criteria and the same objective.
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PATH., path in English, but also an acronym of PEOPLE(people, community), ART(art, culture), TERRITORIES(territories, places), HERITAGE(traditions, craftsmanship).
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The stubbornness in achieving this dream was (and continues to be) the only motivational and decisive lever that made the three brothers overcome the numerous obstacles encountered to date.
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The Charter of Slow and responsible tourism
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We are convinced that authentic development must rest on four pillars: beauty, culture/tradition, respect, exchange.
This is why, speaking of tourism, we believe that the only tourism capable of bringing true development to the territory is responsible tourism.
We mean by slow and responsible tourism the respectful, sustainable and aware one.
Respectful of historic architecture, local traditions and cultures, landscape and host countries and communities.
Sustainable, that is capable of satisfying the needs of the current generation without compromising the ability of future generations to satisfy their own.
Aware because it is able to promote knowledge of everyday places by affirming and enhancing the genius loci of the places we inhabit, starting from the care and strengthening of the link between beauty, inhabitants and territory.
Slow and responsible tourism also means being aware of the consequences of one's actions which implies the willingness to modify them, should these actions have negative consequences.
For this reason, we believe that slow and responsible tourism is a commitment that must first of all be taken by tourists, tour operators, service providers and public institutions.