The small Maya focuses on the fork, unnoticed soon passes to pinch a cluster of spaghetti between the forefinger and thumb, soiling her little muzzle. "We read about the festival on the internet. The atmosphere is magnificent, and the bottarga delicious. It really is the caviar of the Mediterranean" says his father Andrey, one of the many visitors who fill Piazza Sturzo in Cabras on the last Saturday of July.
Events and traditions
Events and traditions
In the late afternoon on the wall of each Riola Sardo house rests a laurel branch. The dark green leaves lay on the opaque pastels where the sun is missing, or are stirred in shadows in the breeze when the light arrives slanting and intense. Three days before the committee of the feast of S. Anna cut the branches from the luxuriant hedges of Milis, paying the farmers in baskets of fish. The laurel has been loaded on trolleys and tractors, especially by young people, and then distributed through the streets of Riola, dressed as a small Jerusalem.
In the late afternoon on the wall of each Riola Sardo house rests a laurel branch. The dark green leaves lay on the opaque pastels where the sun is missing, or are stirred in shadows in the breeze when the light arrives slanting and intense. Three days before the committee of the feast of S. Anna cut the branches from the luxuriant hedges of Milis, paying the farmers in baskets of fish.
Raising his arms in victory, Antonio Putzu brings the “cantoi”, the pole, parallel with the bottom of su fassoni, kept in balance by his bare feet. An almost ancestral figure in the reverberation that the sun gives to the pond, agitated by a gentle west breeze.
In the twilight of the ancient Caddeo winery of Nurachi a small group of Carbonari squares the vernaccia from every side: the fundamental role of chestnut barrels, the peculiar fermentation process and the hectares dedicated to the vineyard, which were five during the 1980s. Now only one remains.
Accompanying the effigy of the Madonna of Bonaria in the procession of Marceddì and S. Giovanni there is a future that begins. “Su ciu”, the traditional fishing boat, advances oar after oar in the silence of the water just rippled by the wind.
“We are jealous of our sea, and we want it to be respected. For this reason we are here today", explains Antonello Zinzula, president of the Pro Loco of S. Vero Milis