The weather is summery. Twenty-five degrees already at 10 in the morning. The flow of tourists does not stop: a human wave of more than seven thousand cruise passengers who disembarked (yesterday) on three “cities of the sea” rises from Via Roma towards Marina, Stampace, Castello. Undaunted, in tank tops, skirts, shorts and sandals, they walk through the streets, protected at most by a hat.
Women, men, children, and elderly people move as if by inertia: English, Canadian, Spanish, Ecuadorian, Brazilian, French, American, Filipino. On a morning in mid-May, finding a Cagliaritan seems like a feat. You recognize someone because they have a shopping bag, someone else because they stop to look almost spellbound. The city fills up and confirms its place in the international elite of cruise ports.
“A city so beautiful it surpasses even the imagination,” says Rodrigo, a Brazilian from Santos as he takes a break from selfies with his family in Mundula Square.
The first passengers begin to disembark as early as 8 a.m. For two hours, Via Riva di Ponente is a continuous and constant river of tourists crossing the walkway to reach the city center.
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