Organized by the association "La Scatola del Tempo" chaired by Mario Sotgiu and promoted by the delegate for Culture, Valentina Geromino, "With light in my eyes" was inaugurated at the Michele Ruzittu Civic Museum , an interesting and partly unpublished exhibition which offers the visitor, comments Geromino, «photos, documents, newspaper articles, historical cartography, memorabilia and drawings, on the development of tourism in the Costa Smeralda».

An agile overview of the memories of the last 60 years of the history of Arzachena and the people of Arzachena , who have profoundly changed its face, history, mentality, economy.

Discovered and described in the nineteenth century, Arzachena with its countryside and its coasts, by the "daredevil" travelers of the time, some of them English, who described it in books and newspaper articles (as documented by the exhibition, still in progress, in the church of San Pietro, organized by the same association) about a century later (the 1950s), other Englishmen, starting with John Ducan Miller, «will publicize, in England, the territory of Arzachena - states Mario Sotgiu - and with some of its friends will decide to invest capital here." History would have it that among these there was a certain – so to speak – Karim Aga Khan.

And so we began to negotiate the purchase of the land with the owners and to discuss investments and volumes with the local and regional political authorities. «We will not pretend, with this simple photographic exhibition, to make a sociological or even anthropological analysis on the changes that the birth (arrival?) of tourism has brought about», is written on the welcome panel to the exhibition, in Italian and English.

«We will leave it to you, kind visitors, to make these reflections, showing you old and exciting images, some newspaper pages yellowed by time and some dated advertisements, alternating them with little-known stories. Everything will happen in rigorous chronological order to make this path that we have decided to share with you and with the new generations easier, clearer and more honest, who, we hope, can have the same light in the eyes of those who, in the mid-twentieth century , they were able to look far away... very far away."