The second edition of the Sardinian stage starts on June 20th “Quartu Sant’Elena and the Gulf of Angels“which is part of the national traveling festival”IT.A.CA migrants and travelers – Responsible Tourism Festival”, which has reached its 16th edition this year and which from May to November brings events and appointments on sustainable and inclusive tourism throughout Italy.
The theme of this sixteenth edition of the festival is “Roots in movement” which each stage will decline depending on its territories and communities. A theme that for the stage of Quartu Sant’Elena it is particularly felt in a region like Sardinia, from which the inhabitants are often forced to move away, either for study or for work.
The Quartu Sant’Elena stage lasts ten days, from June 20th to 30th, and is organized by the Quartu Sant’Elena Tourist Association with the patronage of the Municipality of Quartu Sant’Elena and the contribution of the Sardinia Foundation; includes a series of events that refer to our roots, to the return home, combining iconic places of our collective imagination with those crafts, or rather real arts, that can open up some drawers of our memory.
Places where so much history, sweat and effort, and so much life, have passed through us. The life and places of our ancestors, of the generations that preceded us, such as the former Capuchin Convent, Sa Dom’e Farra, the Campidanese houses Olla, Su Idanu and Murgia-Casanova, the Hotel il Monastero (which was an agricultural company managed by the Jesuits), the Saline, the Nuraghe Diana, the Roman Villa, the war forts. And in these particular stages we find artisans and art masters who still resist the homologations of modern times and globalization, true rebels who pass on our roots.
Tailors of our ancient clothes, master brewers, wine producers, farmers, carpenters, carvers, confectioners, pasta makers, beekeepers, basket makers, falconers, blacksmiths, salt workers, ceramists, nougat makers and carapigneris are just some of the masters who will remind us of our roots.
It will be possible to listen to stories of fairies (the Janas) and their recipes, traditional folk songs and others with jazz influences: a bridge between different cultures. It will be possible to admire, in a small museum, old communication tools, the “internet” of our great-grandparents: radios.
There will also be walking and cycling in the Molentargius Park and activities with sailing boats, kayaks and surfboards.
In short, a concentration of grace and beauty whose due value we often do not recognize. A people without roots is a people without identity… let’s protect them.
