The Bulgari family legacy: from Sotirios Voulgaris’s Roman workshop to one of the world’s defining luxury houses. From Greece to Rome The Bulgari family story begins with Sotirios Voulgaris, born in Epirus in 1857 into a tradition of silversmithing. After moving through Corfu and Naples, he settled in Rome and opened a shop in 1884. That move changed the destiny of the family. Rome was not merely a market: it supplied the architectural language, historical references and Medi