European Hospital

The history of the Garofalo Group is a history that starts long time ago, in the post-war far-off period, when Italy was a shattered country, with an uncertain future. Raffaele Garofalo was a young idealist pursuing a dream he strongly believed in: becoming a great surgeon. Right after graduating he went to the Military Hospital of Naples as a volunteer where he performed his first surgical operations. From Naples to Rome, passing by Ripe San Ginesio, Raffaele’s early dream finally came true and, together with his brothers, at the end of the fifties he took over the management of the private hospital where he was used to work with great determination, the Sant'Antonio of Padua nursing home in Colle Oppio. The sixties started a phase of economic and social transformation of Italy, an agricultural country becoming a modern nation, with an “exponential increase of the industrial sector”; on this background, the Garofalo family made a step forward, giving birth to a big entrepreneurial group. After buying a land In Monteverde area, the building of a new clinic began. The Casa di Cura Città di Roma was so born. In the following decade, known as the ”Years of lead”, in spite of such a negative scenario, the Garofalo Group that, till that moment, had invested in an anti-cyclical field, achieved great results as a fully successful company.