The History

It was the end of the fifties and Italy was running after the ruins of the war. Trust, hope and the will to live were in everyone’s eyes and hearts. As in that of my grandparents, Riccardo and Giovanna, who finished Villa Celeste in 1960. Borgo dei Pescatori is a place considered by many to be infamous. But beauty, as always, that feeling that goes beyond, overcame people’s prejudices.

 

My grandparents went beyond rumors and labels and decided it would be their holiday destination for the six sunniest months of the year, our endless spring in Sardinia. The scenario was different from today. The beautiful beach, from where my grandfather took the small boat, companion of adventures in the waves, was a stone’s throw from the villa, allowing an exciting combination of the residence and the sea.

 

Then the currents and the rising of the sea level over these decades have unfortunately canceled it and sometimes in winter, the sea touches the gate of the villa. Nature takes back its spaces, it is often said. And we respect his will. When my grandparents, in a gesture considered revolutionary for those times, decided to separate, it was my grandmother Giovanna, helped by my mother Luisella, who keeps the villa.

 

He treated her as if she were another favorite daughter, sharing with Luisella the efforts and sacrifices necessary for a house lapped by the sea and with a large garden.
And when he died, his absence was felt. The house was no longer followed for a few years, nature, weather and atmospheric events did their course.

 

It was my turn to take up that thin thread of love and history built by my grandmother Giovanna and my mother Luisella. In 2017, with the approval of my mother, I was called. “There is Villa Celeste to follow, do you want to take care of it?”. I didn’t think about it for a moment. The house of my family memories, of many happy moments, had to return to new splendor. I owed it to my grandparents.
I began to renovate it, and the work is still going on day after day, to fix it without making it lose its soul.

 

Then I decided to make it available for guests who had chosen, in one part, as a home for their holidays. Guests looking for a different place and perceive that love that has gone on for generations in small gestures and attentions, the somewhat wild and exclusive privilege of spending a holiday in a unique location. And then in the evening, who loved enjoying the stars and the sound of the sea from a special front row, not of a cinema, not of a theater. But the real one of our Villa Celeste.