Who was the Italian behind Joe's ice cream parlour in Swansea?
Luigi Cascarini left his native Italy for south Wales at the end of the 19th CenturyIn 1898, Luigi Cascarini left his home town of Picinisco, nestled in the mountains between Rome and Naples, in pursuit of a better life.
The name translates as "friends of the Ceno river" which runs through the northern Italy town of Bardi, from where many Italians emigrated."However, by the 1880s a series of very harsh winters and wet summers had caused the crops in Italy to fail... for people barely scratching a living off the land this was a life-or-death disaster, so the trickle to Wales became a procession.
Once in Wales, some went to work in the mines and iron works, but many others found there was more money to be made from filling the gaps left by the relentless pull of manpower into heavy industry.So popular was one chain, the Bracchis, that the name remains a generic term for any cafe or corner shop the south Wales valleys to this day.
Mr Hughes said the only condition of the loan was that Joe did not open on the same street as the family members who had backed him.Yet every success story needs a stroke of luck, and that's exactly what happened with the rise of theMr Hughes said: "Joe wanted to make his experience as different from the pubs as possible.
They included BBC Wales Today presenter Nick Servini's great-grandfather Bartolomeo Rabaiotti who ran Rabaiotti's Cafe on Pontypridd's High Street. Joe - who had lost a leg and an eye to diabetes - was considered safe enough to be kept prisoner on a farm in Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire.
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