The founder

Luigi Spadoni

Louis-Cesare Pizzi Spadoni he was born in Versilia (LU).

His education was deeply influenced by his experience in a Salesian college, where there was a clear sense of sensibility missionair.

For over fifty years it has been Brother of the Mercy of Camaiore and Lido, and it was among the founders of the Misericordia of Lido di Camaiore.

As a boy he worked at the historic Souvenir hotel in Lido di Camaiore, owned by his father Giuseppe and mother Bianca Maria. His parents taught him the importance of responsibility, because “every action has a weight” and “freedom is not a right, but a conscious choice to do good”. It is in their example that he grew up, inclined to faith and hope, to live the present and look to the future with confidence, even in times of difficulty.

He interrupted his university studies to collaborate with a leading ambulance outfitter as a sales agent and product developer.

In the 1988 he founded the Spencer Italy, a company producing medical devices for theemergency and relief. His intuitions, his ideas and his entrepreneurial spirit have created a reality that has become world leader of the EMS sector, able to respond to the demands of a constantly growing and changing market.

For more than thirty years, Luigi has invented and patented life-saving equipment, developed markets in every country in the world, cultivated personal relationships with the thousands of people he has interacted with and created hundreds of jobs.

In 2020 he sold the company with the star to dedicate himself to a new phase of his life, leaving a dynamic, healthy reality that is respected everywhere for its solidity.

It is then that he begins to give shape to his dream, spazio + spadoni, a Catholic-inspired movement that combines mercy e missionariety through relationships with female religious congregations missionairs and voluntary associations around the world.

Its private collection of historic ambulances from all over the world became a museum open to visitors in 2010 and is located in the province of Parma.

In 2023 he received the honorary citizenship of the city of Rosolini (SR) and the Palma d'argento – Iustus ut palma florebit ad award established by the Diocese of Acireale together with Rosario Valastro, President of the Italian Red Cross.

Ora c'è spazio + spadoni

spazio + spadoni was born to deal with the diffusion and regeneration of mercy in Italy and in the world.

The movement organizes projects, coordinates processes, finances works, identifies paths, to mark the difference. The difference between an “act” and an “act of mercy” is obtained if the culture of the other, the culture of the relationship, the culture of the gift, a deep spiritual sense is rooted.

To be in missione, always.

Let's make missionand when we bring the value of mercy where it is absent or has weakened over time.

Let's make missionand when we try to build a synthesis between action and being in people and organizations.

Let's make missionand when our commitment pushes us to fly like angels of mercy.