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    Casa Rossa (Stromboli, Italy)

    The Casa Rossa in Stromboli is the house where director Roberto Rossellini and actress Ingrid Bergman lived during the making of the 1950 film STROMBOLI (LAND OF GOD).

    In the film, Ingrid Bergman plays a young woman from the Baltic states who marries fisherman Antonio (Mario Vitale) to escape from prison camp. Living on Stromboli, however, with its constant reality of the threat of an active volcano, turns out to be a bigger challenge than expected.

    photo of red house
    Casa Rossa

    The house is the place where Rossellini and Bergman were together for the first time, marking a memorable episode in film history.

    During the preparations for the film, Ingrid Bergman wrote a letter to the director:

    “Dear Mr. Rossellini, I saw your films ROMA CITTÀ APERTA and PAISÀ and I enjoyed them very much. If you need a Swedish actress who speaks English very well, who has not forgotten German, can hardly be understood in French, and in Italian can only say “ti amo”, I am ready to come to Italy to work with you”.

    The Casa Rossa (Red House) is a typical Aeolian-style structure dating back to 1920. Situated at the foot of the volcano, along a path lined with vineyards and prickly pears that descends from the centre towards the sea, the house became an icon of the love story between Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman, thanks above all to the photos published in glossy magazines all over the world.

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