Bruno Kovarich & Simonetta Merlo in the summer of 1977 in Poggio Foco
Bruno Kovarich purchased 550 hectares of Maremma with the money he made selling linen. For years he imported raw linen from Czechoslovakiawhich was transformed into linens used by the most beautiful hotels in Italy.
He came down from Verona in the summer of 1977 and found Poggio Poco which had been abandonded for over a century. Was it an “investment, an escape or a new way to see the world”?
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Poggio Foco, isolated and remote, for centuries it was a place of refuge from bandits, rebels and Jews during WWII. A refuge, for those, that in the times of the Saracens, fleed inland from the coast to protect themselves from pirates. From high hilltop of Poggio Foco a fire blazed indicating the way to safety.
