The Florio family is a prominent entrepreneurial Italian family who started many lucrative activities in Sicily involving the export of Sicilian products (such as Marsala wine) in the nineteenth century, in some ways redeeming Sicily from feudal immobility.[1] The family extended its interests to shipping, shipbuilding, fisheries, mining, metallurgy and ceramics.[2]
Symbol of the Florio family companies - a lion drinking from the spring[3]
^(in Italian) [1], Treccani Dizionario di Economia e Finanza (2012) (retrieved 10 April 2018)
^(in Italian) L'Ora: la sua storia, Agave (Contributo allo studio delle fonti della storia dell'arte in Italia nel Novecento - Università degli Studi di Palermo)
^"Perché i Florio si chiamano "Leoni di Sicilia"". sicilytourist. Retrieved December 30, 2023.
The Floriofamily is a prominent entrepreneurial Italian family who started many lucrative activities in Sicily involving the export of Sicilian products...
The structure was commissioned by the scion of the wealthy Floriofamily, Ignazio Florio Jr, also owners of the hotel refurbished by Basile, Villa Igiea...
wealthiest Italian families during the late 19th century. An automobile enthusiast, he is best known as the founder of the Targa Florio. He was the son of...
of grape. Florio purchased Woodhouse's firm, among others, in the late nineteenth century and consolidated the Marsala wine industry. Florio and Pellegrino...
and shipowner Ignazio Florio Jr., heir of the Floriofamily's economic empire. The assets of Ignazio Florio Jr. included the Florio winery (leading company...
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and German descent. Florio's father was a shipyard painter who also used his poker winnings to help support his family. Florio attended Erasmus Hall...
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officially known as the Ex Stabilimento Florio delle tonnare di Favignana e Formica (English: Former Florio Tuna Fishery of Favignana and Formica), is...
Basile. The Grand Hotel Villa Igiea, designed by Ernesto Basile for the Floriofamily, is a good example of Palermitan Art Nouveau. The huge Teatro Massimo...
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commissioned by Ignazio Florio to become his family's residence in Favignana. The building currently serves as a town hall. "Villa Florio, la Camperia, i Pretti:...
The islands belonged to the Pallavicini-Rusconi family of Genoa until 1874, when the Floriofamily of Palermo bought them. Cala Rossa, Favignana Cala...
Italian shipping company. The company formed in 1881 by the merger of I & V. Florio of Palermo and Raffaele Rubattino of Genoa. At the time of the merger, the...
her breakout in 2019 with The Florios of Sicily (Italian: I leoni di Sicilia), an historical novel about the Floriofamily, which after having been rejected...
Sicily. A certain economic and industrial growth was spurred by the Floriofamily. In the early 20th century Palermo expanded outside the old city walls...
the Castello San Giacomo. In 1874, the Pallavicino family sold the Aegadian Islands to Ignazio Florio, the son of a wealthy mainland industrialist, for...
It was founded in 1897 by Ignazio Florio Jr., grandson of Vincenzo Florio Sr. Construction was protracted and Florio was forced to sell his stake in the...
William James Robjohn, better known by the pseudonym Caryl Florio, (2 November 1843 - 21 November 1920) was an English-born American composer, pianist...
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