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In 1961 Raphael Neville was joined by Italian banker Dino Da Ponte and civil engineer, Roddy Wilson, and together they formed the Anglo-Italiana company, offering in total 140 hectares of land between the Fortress at Monte Altura and Punta Sardegna, for private sale and development. All the plots have long since been sold. The resort has always been developed with care and remains valued for its charm and privacy.
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the Hollywood film director, playwright and novelist. His grandfather was the director of the Julius Neville motor company in Spain.. Raphael Neville's maternal family were Spanish aristocrats; his grandmother Maria Romree Y Palacios was a lady in waiting in the Spanish court and the family title was
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Along with the chapel, the centre of Porto Raphael includes a small delicatessen, two little bars, a restaurant, various boutiques, the beach beyond the Piazetta, and a wooden pontoon for incoming tenders. There is also a yacht club at Marina Porto Rafael, five small beaches and two tennis courts. .
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Several celebrities built houses in Porto Raphael, choosing it above the more flashy Porto Cervo because there were no hotels, it was quiet, secluded and far from prying paparazzi. . One of the first to buy land and build a house, designed by
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Raphael Neville had many friends who flocked to his resort,. and he spent his summers in Porto Rafael until his death in 1996. His birthday is celebrated in the Piazetta every year on 11 August.
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inherited through the male line from her.. His mother Angeles Rubio Arguelles y Allessandri was founding patron of a theatre in Malaga, Spain, named Teatro Ara where she also directed plays (
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in London, arrived to add a gently modernist style to the resort, and Ponis has written several books on the architecture of Porto Cervo and Porto Rafael.
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and he fell irrevocably in love with it. He bought a small patch of land between Baia di Nelson (where
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In 1959, Raphael took a trip to Sardinia, where he stumbled upon a small bay facing the
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had once anchored his fleet) and Punta Sardegna, near the town of
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In 1960, with the help of his friend the American actress
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