Il Pellicano at 60
Stories from six decades of sophistication at the Porto Ercole paradise
- Words by: Joseph Bullmore
- Photography: Slim Aarons
Stories from six decades of sophistication at the Porto Ercole paradise
Stories from six decades of sophistication at the Porto Ercole paradise
Il Pellicano leaves a mark. Sometimes quite literally. Charles Finch remembers first going there as a nine-year-old boy and stumbling into the swimming pool - before emerging with a huge scrape across his chin. “And I’ve still got it to this day!” he says, a lilt of pride just detectable in his voice. Well, if you’re going to get a lifelong scar, you might as well get it at Il Pellicano – that rock-slung , clad in ripe terracotta and billowing with pale parasols, which sits in some Tuscan fever-dream next to the Tyrrhenian Sea.
Il Pellicano leaves a mark. Sometimes quite literally. Charles Finch remembers first going there as a nine-year-old boy and stumbling into the swimming pool - before emerging with a huge scrape across his chin. “And I’ve still got it to this day!” he says, a lilt of pride just detectable in his voice. Well, if you’re going to get a lifelong scar, you might as well get it at Il Pellicano – that rock-slung , clad in ripe terracotta and billowing with pale parasols, which sits in some Tuscan fever-dream next to the Tyrrhenian Sea.
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