Prior to the mill Mattei, the mill was called the mill Franceschi, named after its owner. He belonged to an ancestor of Marcel Fortini, himself a native of the region and has made the photographs in this book. Franceschi The mill ceased its activity in the early nineteenth century. Lightning had hit the building, damage was very great; the repair proved impossible, it is abandoned. At the spot where the mill was built in ancient times, the night we lit fires to guide ships in the dangerous passes. Fire and metaphorical expression – love at first sight – are no strangers to the history of this mill.