RICORDO
28-03-2023 by Roberto Macrì
With great sadness Franco embarked on his last safari. A "request of his that I could not refuse": he had me move from Nairobi to Malindi in late 1978.....the year he invented Malindi, a destination unknown to Italians; I collaborated closely and proudly with Franco Rosso and Roberto Palma in the creation and management of the first Italian hotel not on the sea, using the private beach on the property that became the present Rosada beach (then Symon Beach).
His bold choice, unquestionably created Malindi village, from a fishing village. I feel it is incumbent on Italians to know that the initially tourist road later became to a "Little Italy" which, although small in size, still remains number one on the Kenyan coast as a destination for Italian tourism.
ONGERA FRANCO.
EVENTS
by Leni Frau
A touching but also meaningful remembrance of Italian entrepreneur Franco Rosso was staged yesterday...
CEREMONY
by redazione
A memorial service for Turin entrepreneur and Kenya tourism pioneer Franco Rosso will be held...
SOLIDARITY
by redazione
The solidarity chain started from Kenyan Embassy of the Order of the Knights of Malta and also promoted through our site, with the complicity of compatriot Rita Valentini, has arrived at the desired result, to bring a water tank and a...
MOURNING
by Freddie del Curatolo
For many years he was one of the pens and voices of the Italians in Kenya.
Often a voice...
PERSONS
by redazione
A grievous mourning envelops the Italian community in Malindi, he has left us one of the deans of the "Italian colony".
Brescia manufacturer Renato Marini. Worn out from a long illness, he died at his home behind the Galana Center,...
MOURNING
by Freddie del Curatolo
Not only an Italian tourism pioneer, but the first entrepreneur in the industry to bet on Kenya not...
EXCLUSIVE
by Freddie del Curatolo
In these days, the operational authority of the Kenyan Ministry of the Environment, the NEMA, should ...
SOLIDARITY
by redazione
Three years ago, a terrible road accident took away the heart and the industriousness of "Mama" Liliana...
STORIES
by Freddie del Curatolo
Just as when you leave Africa, perhaps painfully just because life takes you elsewhere, Africa...
MOURN
by Freddie del Curatolo
He left just in the historic days in which the Member States are back in "his" Cuba. While Barack Obama, the President of Kenya with blood, was to end the age-old embargo, raising the American tourism, the founder of the...
