1923 Inauguration Hotel "Bernina"

Attilio Silvestri, Hotel Bernina's Manager, is recognized in Livigno as the first real Hotelier. The Bernina was built between 1920 and 1930. Silvestri was born as the son of a farmer's family, off the mountain poised fields. As Portier, Boy and even as a cook, Silvestri made his living in the Bernina Hotel in Samaden, Switzerland, getting his first impressions from the hotel's world.
After earning some reputation and becoming experienced, Silvestri started planning his own hotel. All rooms in Silvestri's hotel are almost completely made out of wood. In every room there is a small wooden oven used for the heating in winter. Even as the hotel is already on a very high level, the water must be taken by hand from the fountain, because there's no tube system in the hotel. Electricity already arrives from the "Restèl"-Powerstation.
Silvestri, also thanks to his professional experiences abroad, likes to attract foreign tourists with various attractions. Above all German tourists love to sojourn at his hotel almost from the beginning.