Slow Food
Founded in Italy by Carlo Petrini, in response to a fast-food restaurant opening near the Spanish Steps in Rome. The international manifesto was signed in Paris in 1989 by 15 countries. Today it is present in over 150 countries.
The building dates from the early twentieth century and is one of the first built in Marina di Campo. For years it was the home of fishermen. In town they called it Palazzo Vaticano, because of the water cistern that served the whole building: for the time, a precious convenience.
The 1943–45 photographs show the town of that time: a few houses, the trees and the hills behind.
Inside, the original terracotta and wood ceilings and the vaulted bedroom ceilings have remained, intact for a century. You sleep under the same vault as back then, with all of today's comforts.
