Goodbye to Daniele Kihlgren, he transformed an abandoned village into a widespread hotel

Daniele Kihlgren, Milanese of Swedish origin, cement and tourism entrepreneur, died today at the age of 55. From what we learn, the death occurred in Rome and was caused by the worsening of a pathology that had accompanied him since he was a teenager.

Known throughout the world for his versatility, in Abruzzo he was the founder of the Sexantio scattered hotel in Santo Stefano di Sessanio, an authentic pearl of the L'Aquila mountain.

According to what has been learned, the body will be taken to the parish church of Santo Stefano di Sessanio on Friday afternoon from 3pm for a final farewell also in the village which, thanks to his intuition, has earned international fame over time.

Kihlgren is the third son of a family of cement entrepreneurs, who at the end of the nineties decided to buy and renovate abandoned and ruined houses in Santo Stefano di Sessanio, founding a widespread hotel that attracted guests from all over the world, creating dozens of jobs and establishing an innovative tourism model in the name of zero land consumption.

Subsequently he carried out a similar project in the Sassi of Matera and in a small village with an accommodation destination on an island of Lake Kivu in Rwanda, on the border with Congo. For more than ten years he had been managing a project for health insurance for poor Congolese who cannot afford medical care, with the proceeds from the tourist accommodation business.