It 'an event that there are cycles in years, and featuring the beautiful and small Carloforte. The excellent taste of tuna, at the stage of the slaughter, which is the final moment of the proceedings, are made into a complex of networks, which were lowered into the sea in the month of May and will remain there until the month of June. The fish within these rooms is to grow and swell, until the rais, the leader of the trap, that the number tuna in the rooms set up by the networks, is sufficient and that the weather conditions are good, the fish, by making wise are obliged to make its entry into the chamber of death. For the four sides of this, once again consisting of networks, four boats, inhabited by tonnarotti. These follow the orders given by rais raise the nets, resulting in the ascent to the surface of the fish that will get excited to play in a loud and exciting and at the same coldly cruel. The most beautiful and big it will be hit with crocchè, the hooks of tonnarotti. Before the spectators, who year after year become more numerous, the sea is tinged with red, and tuna are torn by the sea is hoisted high in auctions. A show that may seem crude, perhaps simply because time was not spectacular, but a natural means to survive and the food supply. Tuna is the carlofortini not really throw anything, as if to, since the last time, meet the wonderful creatures of the sea. For years now, a good frame to trap the girotonno, an event in which many tourists who have the opportunity not only to know and visit an island of rare beauty, but also to taste one of the best tuna world, cooked in ways more sfizziose, from world-renowned chefs.

Claudia Zedda

Sant'Antioco is an island of 'Sulcis of the archipelago, which stretches for nearly 109kmq, the only towns on the island and are Sant'Antioco Calasetta. The island is a portrait of cities in the past, visiting in fact it seems that time is never past: urban management has conducted almost a family, and although some of the technology is far from the patterns of life of the inhabitants, quiet that you will find on the island do not feel the lack, even for visitors.

Magnificent beaches of the island, usually a little crowded, and at the bottom you can do really interesting diving excursions among all are: Maladroxia beach, not far from town, beach Coa 'and Quaddus, characterized by rocks white, like the beach at Cape Sperone, not far from town, and near a tower in Spain. Surrounded by rocks is the beach of Cala Saboni, formed by the accumulation transported by rivers that flow, and the beach of Cala Lunga, a cove with white sand. Ponds that can be found on the island, home to several species of water birds including flamingo pink, the egrets and gulls, also here the queen falcon nests in the summer.

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