In 1950 Crescini Paolo offered my father, Rossi Severo, his licence. The business, which back then operated in via S. Michele, was only made up of 2 rooms and a bowls game yard.
In 1953 we moved the business in the country house in P.za Umberto I, were we lived, we restored the stables and made them into a bar: it was 70 square meters wide plus another room on the upper floor and the kitchen. In the halls on the upper floor there was a black and white TV set, and about fifty chairs which where occupied to the last every evening, except on Fridays when a comedy, appreciated only by a handful of elders, was aired.
The kitchen was used mostly on weekends when workers came back from Milan. In this period we started to cook typical dishes: baccalà, trippa and nervetti.
My family, comprising my parents, my brother Giampietro (born in 1936), my sister Carla (born in 1938), myself (Bruna, born in 1946) and Giuseppe (born in 1952), in addition to this business also worked in the fields and my father was a small cattle trader.
Things began to change in 1957, when Carla got married. Mum was tired and didn’t want to keep the business, I was beginning to attend professional school and Dad, who received several purchase requests, wanted to sell everything, both our house and our business. One day he informed me of his decision: at 3 p.m. of the same day he had an appointment with the purchasers. After he made a deal to sell the venue my father gathered the family to give us the news, but I wouldn’t hear any of it, I resented his decision because this job made me feel important among people, for everyone I was the establishment little girl.
Thanks to my insistence, Dad cancelled the selling, but gave me some rules to follow: I had to leave school and support all my family with the inn profits.
I proudly accepted and tried to improve the business, I had a telephone line installed and I purchased a little jukebox.
In 1961/2 the town grew so I decided to expand my inn, I enlarged the terrace and named the venue Trattoria Porta del Sole. We worked well and people flocked in more and more.
In 1967 I got married and I stayed with my husband to manage the establishment, which became our property. We decided to restore and enlarge it eliminating the TV room, and making it into a true restaurant: we cooked wedding banquets and meals for couples and families. In 1968 our son Paolo was born and for the occasion the Paolino wine, the Maccheroni alla Porta del Sole and the coniglio alla forestale, still widely requested and appreciated, were born.
The drive for a new restoring was given to us in 1984 by the Garda Golf opening and, at the same time, by Paolo attending hotel school. So we enlarged the premises adding 12 guestrooms.
Thanks to the hotel success in 1989 we started to ask permission for expanding the establishment, reaching with passion and steadfastness the present situation.
So we arrived in the new millennium; thus, the Porta del Sole Hotel was born.
In 1953 we moved the business in the country house in P.za Umberto I, were we lived, we restored the stables and made them into a bar: it was 70 square meters wide plus another room on the upper floor and the kitchen. In the halls on the upper floor there was a black and white TV set, and about fifty chairs which where occupied to the last every evening, except on Fridays when a comedy, appreciated only by a handful of elders, was aired.
The kitchen was used mostly on weekends when workers came back from Milan. In this period we started to cook typical dishes: baccalà, trippa and nervetti.
My family, comprising my parents, my brother Giampietro (born in 1936), my sister Carla (born in 1938), myself (Bruna, born in 1946) and Giuseppe (born in 1952), in addition to this business also worked in the fields and my father was a small cattle trader.
Things began to change in 1957, when Carla got married. Mum was tired and didn’t want to keep the business, I was beginning to attend professional school and Dad, who received several purchase requests, wanted to sell everything, both our house and our business. One day he informed me of his decision: at 3 p.m. of the same day he had an appointment with the purchasers. After he made a deal to sell the venue my father gathered the family to give us the news, but I wouldn’t hear any of it, I resented his decision because this job made me feel important among people, for everyone I was the establishment little girl.
Thanks to my insistence, Dad cancelled the selling, but gave me some rules to follow: I had to leave school and support all my family with the inn profits.
I proudly accepted and tried to improve the business, I had a telephone line installed and I purchased a little jukebox.
In 1961/2 the town grew so I decided to expand my inn, I enlarged the terrace and named the venue Trattoria Porta del Sole. We worked well and people flocked in more and more.
In 1967 I got married and I stayed with my husband to manage the establishment, which became our property. We decided to restore and enlarge it eliminating the TV room, and making it into a true restaurant: we cooked wedding banquets and meals for couples and families. In 1968 our son Paolo was born and for the occasion the Paolino wine, the Maccheroni alla Porta del Sole and the coniglio alla forestale, still widely requested and appreciated, were born.
The drive for a new restoring was given to us in 1984 by the Garda Golf opening and, at the same time, by Paolo attending hotel school. So we enlarged the premises adding 12 guestrooms.
Thanks to the hotel success in 1989 we started to ask permission for expanding the establishment, reaching with passion and steadfastness the present situation.
So we arrived in the new millennium; thus, the Porta del Sole Hotel was born.
