OUR COMPANY

The origins

The Bernardi family works in Rome for three generations, in the field of sales of religious items, sacred objects and souvenirs of the city.

The first company – dates back to 1928 – was created by the founder Luigi Bernardi, who due to his initiative sets the milestone of a company destined to grow in the following decades.

Immediately after the end of the Second World War, in Italy there is a climate of confidence for the future economic reconstruction, which also involves the Bernardi family and many other Italians, eager to bury one of the darkest periods in national history. In fact, the historic headquarter of the Bernardi family business in Trastevere area – one of the most famous and characteristic district of Rome – starts their activity.

The company’s developments

In the Sixties, at the initiative of Eliezer Bernardi, who started working in a very young family business with honesty, sense of duty, sacrifice and passion for work and for the family, the activity is extended to Saint Peter area, initially in via della Traspontina and then in the current headquarter in via delle Conciliazione 14/a.

And exactly in this headquarter in the very heart of the Vatican City, opposite the Basilica of Saint Peter and next to the historic Church of Saint Mary in Traspontina, his sons, Luigi and Carlo Bernardi, continue the commercial activity of religious articles, sacred objects and souvenirs of the city of Rome.