Record numbers for the 2022 edition of the Calamaro Festival, a traditional event that, for forty years, has welcomed the season just ended in Porto Rotondo.
In the heart of the village over three thousand people, in line from 11.30 and for three hours, to taste over five quintals of squid , golden (in four hundred liters of oil) by the skilled hands of eight chefs of the Gallura Cooks Association, helped to serve the frying in foils, rigorously eco-compostable, by thirty volunteers, at work from the visible cutting of the squid to their packaging.
Between rivers of beer and Vermentino, in Piazza San Marco, the musical selection of Francesco Roccaforte dj and the live music of The LivExperience in Piazza Cascella, set up with stands of exhibitors from all over the island and games for children .
First full version of the event, after the reduced ones due to pandemic, the Squid Festival, organized by the Porto Rotondo Natural Shopping Center, met with (almost) unprecedented success, excluding the one in 2017 in which the squid finished earlier than expected.
"The Festival of the squid 2022, which after the reduced edition of last year has returned to its old glories, was a record attendance, including those of many owners who, taking advantage of the long bridge for the All Saints second homes reopened ", commented the president of the Porto Rotondo natural shopping center, Luca Bonifaci, who also confirmed the presence of many visitors from all over Sardinia.
