Quartu says goodbye to Natalina Laconi, the landlady of Su Meriagu, who died at the age of 88.
Until last summer she was a permanent presence in her hotel-restaurant on the Quartese coast, always ready to prepare delicious dishes for her customers.
«A great loss for the city, together with his sister Tonia he had invented Su Meriagu», recalls the mayor Graziano Milia.
«But the even more significant thing about Natalina Laconi was her being a real intellectual, she had participated in the group of the periodical Nazione Sarda with Giovanni Lilliu, Francesco Masala and many other prestigious intellectuals. And right in her hotel», Milia continues, «she had created a sort of cultural cenacle, which over the years became a meeting point for Antine Nivola and his wife Ruth Guggenheim, Pinuccio Sciola and Maria Lai, to whom she was very close. He was a high-level figure who left his mark and whom we mourn with great affection."
A passion for culture that led her to write a book, a work being published that will see the light in the coming months. "It will be an opportunity to remember Natalina, her value as a woman and as an intellectual," concludes Milia.
