In the middle of the 19th century, when this building originated, the owner was a certain Captain Feola, a lobster fisherman who sailed his brigantine between Ponza, Sardinia and Marseille.
As was the local custom, the island inhabitants were unable to go fishing during the winter months, and so they worked on their houses, extending them, digging out grottoes in the crumbling rock of the hills, to create new rooms, wells or cisterns to collect rainwater.
Thus was born the captain's house.