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1930s, 1970s: A house in Puglia holds years of family history
Casa Rossa
What you need to know before your trail
A farmhouse, a family home, a family legacy and one which now is being sold and packed up ready for the next family to enjoy,
But for now, Alina the daughter of the family must pack up the memories and piece together the fragments of her family’s past. Her grandmother, Renee, married to Alina’s painter grandfather, left him for a woman and fled to Paris. Her mother Alba, who grew up at Casa Rossa died in mysterious circumstances.
Sister Isabella, once her best friend, has now become a stranger caught up in a bitter fight for a dangerous ideology.
A haunting story of what happens when family secrets collide with history
Travel Guide
Puglia
“Puglia is the heel of Italy, the thinnest strip of land between two seas”
Casa Rossa is the home of the Strada family nestled in the stunning hills and amidst the fragrant olive groves of Puglia.
Imagine a house like this being sold, locked up ready to be handed over to someone else. A family having to pass their home onto someone else to enjoy but a home so imbedded in their past and it in theirs that it’s difficult to let go.
“Casa Ross has been my family house for over seventy years. I know its snell like I know the smell of cut grass. Its map is imprinted in me, I can walk it blindfolded”
Casa Rossa looks at the duplicity of Italy’s role in the 1930s to the dark years of the Red Brigade’s terrorism in the 1970s.
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: Casa Rossa
Author/Guide Francesca Marciano Destination: Puglia Departure Time: 1930s, 1970s
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