In the first decade of the XX s. the Moré family gave their name to the Taverna Tonet, in honor of the father of the family Antonio Moré Mallorquí. The daughter Francisca Moré Casas and 2 brothers are responsible for managing the tavern where the fishermen of the village were fed.
In the spring of 1950, recording of the film “Pandora and the Wandering Dutchman” starring Ava Gardner, makes it increase the visibility on a global scale of Tossa de Mar. The fame of the film on screens, causes a fever to make apartments, hotels, restaurants… and be able to welcome all the tourists in these lands.
The tourist interest is imminent and generates the creation of many temporary jobs. The people of Tossa, in those times, were peasants, fishermen, tailors or cork-makers. For this reason, many workers from the suburbs come to make paddles, carpenters, painters… and, like every worker, needs to eat and stay.
The brothers Moré and Casas, since the tavern has more and more customers decide to rent a private house with 8 rooms, in order to be able to host those customers who need it. This house known as Can Rovira, is baptized as Fonda Tonet in 1952, and remains open for about eight years.
At the Fonda Tonet, they offered full board, but they didn’t have a coffee maker or ice cream. So the daughters of Francisca, as teenagers, they walked to a bar to order ice cream or coffee to keep the customers happy. Even they danced Sardanes to leave the foreign tourists, increasingly present in the streets, speechless.
The customers are satisfied and the figures allow them to reform the Taverna Tonet, which will lead to the Restaurant Can Tonet. The tapas they made on Sundays were very popular.
In 1956, they bought the house of Can Ferro and the land next to it, with the intention of building a hostel. Over the years and with much dedication and effort to the Restaurant Can Tonet, it is invested to build the facade of the building and finish the distribution of the first floor.
Initially, the workers went to eat at the Restaurant Can Tonet and then went up to sleep at the Hostel, since the ground floor with kitchen and dining room was not finished. Over the years, the hostel is being completed by zones and when money allows.
Around the 1980s, the sisters Consol (1936) and Carme Nualart Moré (1938)-daughters of Francisca Moré Casas-managed what became the Tonet Hotel .
Opening all year, they made meals for weddings, communions and baptisms, as well as events for the town hall and the population of Tossa. They could group up to 130 people in the room.
The Hotel Tonet, as we know it today, has been open for more than seventy years and three generations.
It is a responsibility and an honour to take over one of the most emblematic hotels in Tossa de Mar, opened in the mid-20th century.
“Salt has always been a fundamental element in the life of the inhabitants of Tossa de Mar. Anchovies were salted, mushrooms were salted and the boat loaded with salt was awaited with delight by the fishermen who already carried it when they left the water. It can be said that in Tossa everything is salted. They even salt the speech”
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