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Brand History 
Sustainability 
Sizing & Fit Guide In 1977 the Italian Grigolato Brothers, Graziano & Mario made their first pair of handmade Italian walking shoes in the tiny front room of their home in Castelcucco at the foot of the Dolomite Mountains. Having been born in the area, walking and the Great Outdoors was in their blood and being Italian, shoemaking was also in their blood. Every day on their way to school the boys passed Italian factories in the Montebelluna region of Italy making all types of shoes from ladies stilettos to safety work boots with a steel toe. The brothers decided that they would concentrate on putting comfort at the forefront of everything they would ever make and settled upon the idea of making a hand-stitched Moccasin style walking shoe as their first project. This original design can still be seen in the range today as the Grisport handstitched models ‘Modena’ and ‘Kielder’ are still made using the same principles and design ideas as the very first pair the brothers ever made. They never knew at this early stage that they would end up making hundreds of thousands of pairs of this design that they sketched by hand in 1977.
In 2008 the biggest commitment to manufacturing in Italy was confirmed when the Company invested almost £6 million pounds in a ground-breaking plan to power the whole factory using nothing more than the energy from the sun. The photovoltaic panels that cover 15,000m2 of the factory now ensure that Grisport make the greenest shoes on the planet and are all part and parcel of this ethical Company that has always been at the forefront of technology & design. Now found in every corner of the globe, Grisport and the founder brothers have come a long way since that first pair of hand stitched moccasins in 1977.
