Donoratico
Location: Italy (Tuscany)
Type of village: Cases
Date of opening: 1966
Year of closing: 2003
A little history: Located on the Mediterranean coast between Livorno and Piombino and 15 hours from Paris Gare de Lyon by sleeper train, Donoratico opened on July 2, 1966 with Roger CAILLET as village chief.
The village is located in a 35-hectare forest bordering a long, straight beach like those found in the Landes region or in the north of France.
Designed especially for families with children, Donoratico is one of the first villages, like Santa Giulia and Pakostane, to set up the Mini Club in 1967. Donoratico is even not recommended for singles and couples without children during school holidays, when the village is full to bursting and often overbooked!!
For sports, the village offers a ranch with around thirty horses, tennis courts, a real judo dojo, and sailing. The first tridents also advertise water skiing, but point out that the sea conditions make it difficult to practice.
The village also had two lovely swimming pools, one with a double diving board.
The village closed in 2003 with Alain Fresson
Today :
About ten years after the closure of the Club and after some legal hassles concerning the sale of the land, a new era has begun for the former Club Med.
Paradù Tuscany Eco Resort is a village made up of wooden mobile homes equipped with every comfort. Unfortunately, little remains of the old clubhouse, except for the amphitheater and a few other odds and ends. The lovely swimming pool with its diving board has disappeared.
Videos
Club Méditerranée Donoratico
Commercial
Excerpt from the Club's advertising film "Whatever your age in the calendar"
Poï Chevalier / Sylvie Lefevre
Club Med Donoratico Summer 1997
🙋♂️..hello and delighted to see again the Village Club which rocked my 11 years and where I passed all my swimming certificates.
My Father, in 1971 I think, had
participated in the filming of a.. "WESTERN"
really SPAGHETTI (LOL)
which we had watched during 1 evening
at the CLUB Headquarters
What memories, THANK YOU for allowing us these Journeys in the Past
Kind regards, Ph.Huet
philip.huet@yahoo.fr
Wow, same for me, I must have been 6 or 8 years old, the kids club, the ball necklaces to buy ice cream, the diving board where I learned to swim, the evenings... Pierre and Marc JOLIVET as Club Med entertainers!