November 14, 1998 was the day it all began. The first floor of this dilapidated house was purchased; that same night, the garage collapsed.
The house had a first floor and two floors, and was surrounded by a decaying environment: the old Hotel del Lago, abandoned after three fires, and the unpaved side street of the Torreta.
As a curiosity, the main access street to the current Torreta had no sidewalk, it was a two-way street and cars parked on the sides.