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OUR HISTORY
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1897, Archimede and Santa Biló
first opened the doors of this now famous Trattoria to the
public. Santa was a beautiful light skinned woman with jet
black hair and was known throughout Ancona as "La
Moretta" (The Brunette), Archimede loved this
name and decided to name the Trattoria after his beloved
wife.
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The Biló
family.
(Circa 1916)
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Santa (La
Moretta)
Biló.
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In the mid
1930's, Archimede went into retirement and the helm of the
Trattoria was passed on to his youngest son Bruno.
Bruno and
his wife Dorina continued the tradition of running a first
class restaurant specializing in traditional local and
regional dishes.
When World
War II broke out, Bruno was drafted into the Army. As a
result, Archimede came out of retirement to help his
daughter-in-law run the Trattoria.
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Throughout
this period, Ancona was heavily bombed, but the Trattoria remained
open doing business as usual.
When the war finally
ended, the sad news came with it. Bruno had died in a German
prisoner-of-war camp. Archimede and Dorina continued to run the
Trattoria until Corrado, Bruno's only son, was older and
knowledgeable enough to continue the tradition.
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