It was 1955 when Paolo and Ileana De Ferrari, descendants of a noble Genoese family, discovered for the first time the Biodola beach on the Island of Elba. And it is immediately love at first sight for the crystalline water and the fine sand, for the delicate flowers that grow along the dunes and for the intense scent of mastic and corks in the air. Among the very few guests on the beach, there is also Errol Flynn, the famous Hollywood star, who like them has stopped to enjoy the peace of this unexplored paradise. It is exactly here, on the beach of Biodola, that Paolo De Ferrari had the intuition of creating a class structure to welcome guests from all over the world, seeking relaxation away from it all.