The story starts here in this photo. The man in the center was named Antonio Francis Stellino. He was a magnificent entrepreneur and businessman, and in the final 7 years of his lifetime he spent his time transforming his rare visions into realities by creating Baglio Passofondo and Villa Cristina Scopello. In this photo in Sicily he was roughly 25 years of age and the location where this photo was taken is not far from the area where his mega villa properties would one day exist. Fast forward into the future 40 years, and he broke ground on building his first masterpiece Baglio Passofondo, located in famous white wine grape country, just outside of Alcamo, Sicily, in late 2014 and completed the massive reconstruction and renovation and opened the property for the world to admire in 2018.

In 2017, while the Baglio Passofondo building project was getting closer to completion, Antonio broke ground again on another project, this time in the highly-popular seaside village of Scopello, Sicily, which he named Villa Cristina Scopello, named after his elder daughter, Cristina. Opened for guests in late 2019, the villa compound has had visitors and guests from all over the world, ranging from international vacationers to hosting live performance concerts for international Pop-stars to inviting the Ferrari Tour to cruise through the exclusive property for a special evening to showcase their beautiful automobiles.