Fifty years ago Morcone was not the tourist village it is today. The landscape was almost devoid of buildings; rural buildings, so-called warehouses, predominated. Like many Capoliverians, our paternal great-grandparents Vago Paris and Perna Maria, although they owned some land, had to leave their village to seek their fortune in Australia and only after several years, in the early 1900s, together with our grandfather Augusto who was then only four years old, did they return to Capoliveri.

From these accounts, it seems that life, though tiring, flowed more slowly and more peacefully than it does today. In the early 1950s, Augustus and Meri were married. In 56 our mother was born. It had to pass, however, a few more years before we saw the first accommodations for tourists. The first hotel ever to be built in Morcone was " La Scogliera." It was followed by " The Dragon." Soon after, some Germans began to invest in our territory, which, therefore, began to change its appearance. Only in 1966, my grandfather Augusto, who until then had been a blacksmith, thanks to the sale of a piece of land, managed to build with his own hands and the help of a few workers the first wing of the current Residence. Later the second one was also built. This, became his and my grandmother Meri's work. Many years have passed since then, our mother married Franco and Nadia and I were born.