Altamura Siciliano Francesco He was born on July 21, 1924 in Mottola, Province of Taranto. Son of Saverio Altamura and Comazia Siciliano. He arrived in San José from Panama in 1952, and spent time with his family staying in the facilities of the Don Bosco School, until the SICA finished building the homes in San Vito. In January 1953 they arrived by air to Agua Buena and from there on horseback to San Vito. He was accompanied by his wife Filomena Carriero Orlando, whom he had married in 1945. In addition to his children Saverio and Carmine, born in Mottola. Later, Angelo (who was a deputy in the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica) and María Comasia were born in San Vito. Her son Saverio remembers that it was his mother who started cooking bread in the community oven. When they sold it they saw that it was a good business and thus the first bakery in San Vito was born. Even today he is remembered for producing the YELLOW Bread, created in San Vito by Pietro Colombo. The first job was as a clerk in the Sica business managed by Angelo D'Ambrosio. Together with Palmo Aloisio they made the first contract to exploit the black stones from the quarry in Las Cruces, with which the SICA fixed the streets. In addition to being a baker, he was a coffee farmer. For a time he helped with the procedures at the Italian Consulate in San Vito. Founding member of the Dante Alighieri Committee in San Vito. His properties in San Vito are preserved and managed by his son Angelo. Both Francesco and Filomena rest in the San Vito cemetery.
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Filomena Carriero Orlando, cuidando sus primeras gallinas en su propiedad.
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ALTAMURA CARRIERO FAMILY REVIEW BY ING. SAVERIO ALTAMURA Dad, Mom, Carmine and I left on the ship (Americo Vepucci) from Genoa to Colon, Panama. The trip lasted almost 40 days. It was a cargo ship that also carried passengers. It made a trip from Naples to Valpaiso, Chile. We disembarked in Panama and from there we arrived in a Pan American plane to La Sabana, San Jose at the end of 1952. We were received by SICA representatives and some priests from the Salesian School Don Bosco, who were mostly Italian. Since that school had dormitories for the students and it was a vacation period, they housed us there for a couple of months, until they finished building the house in San Vito, where they were going to house several families. That house no longer exists and was located next to the property of Antonio Convertino. With us came a cousin of Dad's called Saverio Altamura, his wife Cosima Chiarelli (Mimina) and their children Angelo and Pietro, as well as Pietro de Carlo, his wife Maria Michela De Santis, their children Donato and Melina. These three families came from Mottola. In January 1953, we were transported to Agua Buena by air and then on horseback, because there was no road, only trails to San Vito. Dad started working in a grocery store owned by SICA for a couple of years and Mom made bread in the Mottolese style. She took it to the community bakery on Via dei Pioneros, now owned by Liliano Consumi. There, everyone who needed to bake bread and pastries used it. They began to sell the bread that Mom produced and saw that it was a pretty good business. And they decided to set up a bakery in partnership with Angelo D'Ambrosio. The first baker was ....
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