Flavio Pilialvu was not an ice cream vendor or a street vendor of fainè: it was the heart of Sassari . More famous than a few mayors, more popular than a big businessman, he died at the age of 98.

Generations of Sassari, when they were children, got to know him in the historic center, with his bicycle, on the Corso, in Piazza Azuni or via Maddalena, together with his precious load of delicacies: delicious ice creams in good seasons, fainè in the colder months .

For everyone, young and old, a kind word, also and above all in Sassari, for every child a smile. Unmissable. For decades, from the 50s to almost all of the 80s, before retiring. That's why tens of thousands of people remember him with affection and emotion, on social networks and in the markets, as if an uncle of the family had passed away .

Sassari without Flavio will be a poorer city, the one with its ice creams was more cheerful and lively, where one's problems were everyone's. Especially in the historic centre, once the beating heart of the city's economic and social life. Now pale memories remain of the glories of those times. The most beautiful will be the many children, now men and women, who trembled for a small cone (so to speak) sold for 20 lire by a kind and generous man. Symbol of a city. Forever.