CARLOFORTE - In Carloforte it is time for Girotonno but with a special 2021 edition. The pandemic has blown the 2020 edition and the 18th 4-day food and wine festival has been postponed to 2022, which has its heart in the international challenge in the kitchen between chef. But the municipal administration of the town on the island of San Pietro, a popular tourist destination in the southwest of Sardinia, has set up a billboard from 12 to 31 July to celebrate, with a different formula, the bluefin tuna, a precious resource of the territory, " local product of world excellence ", underlines Aureliana Curcio, councilor for tourism.
Cuisine, music, theater, screenings, meetings, culture, exhibitions, to relaunch tourism and restart economic activities after the difficult period linked to Covid.
Two initiatives in the foreground: the online contest "Special Girotonno 2021 Recipe Award", a competition based on tuna dishes involving local restaurateurs with recipes that will be proposed through a video uploaded to the "Carloforte Turismo" Facebook page to be voted with the likes of users.
Then there is the online event and in presence "Food influencer by chance": tourists and visitors are invited to tell their travel experience in Carloforte through the tasting of dishes where the main ingredient is bluefin tuna.
The collaboration with the South West Sardinia Flag, an agency that deals with the development of the coastal territory of Sulcis Iglesiente, marks a new course for the Girotonno, based on environmental, social and economic sustainability and candidate to obtain the ISO 20121 Certification for sustainable events . "Even today we find ourselves having to adopt suitable measures to guarantee the safety of all - declares the mayor Salvatore Puggioni - Among the many things that Carloforte and its community possess, there is the fishing of Bluefin tuna, which in itself collects many aspects depths of our island: history, culture, tradition and, of course, local cuisine. Aspects that the pandemic will never change and that we will have to live in a different way than before ".