Friuli-Venezia Giulia is a region that never ceases to amaze. And he demonstrated it, in recent days, also with MEET Friuli-Venezia Giulia, the exhibition that guided the Milanese and visitors who also came to the city for the International Tourism Fair to discover a multifaceted and multicultural land, capable of reconciling tradition and modernity. The younger, more dynamic side of the neighborhood has emerged Sunday February 4last day of the event organized by PromoTurismoFVG in collaboration with DOVE: well-known faces and emerging talents from the world of catering, sports and travel took to the stage, interacting with DOVE journalists and the public in the hall of Palazzo Giureconsulti.
With Stefano Basello discovering the flavors and values of Friuli-Venezia Giulia
The first meeting of the last day of MEET Friuli Venezia Giulia was the one between the editor-in-chief of DOVE Mari Mollica and Stefano Basellochef of the Restaurant 1905 in Udine, Hotel Là di Moret, passionate popularizer of the biodiversity of an area which includes 320 thousand hectares of forests and 50% of the flora species of the national territory.
From this wealth of raw materials unique products are born, many of which bear the Io sono FVG brand and the Slow Food presidium, which Basello uses for its creative cuisine. Its dishes revisit local traditions, mountain ravioli cjarson with pesto varhackarauntil the boring and others saor fish from the lagoon. The public was then able to taste his cuisine live, strongly linked to local traditions, during the closing aperitif of the meeting.
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Margherita Granbassi and Michele Pittacolo, athletes “made in FVG”
The sports page could not fail to tell the story of the strong and courageous spirit of Friuli Venezia Giulia, land of origin of many talents who gave prestige to Italy in the world. Among them, guest of MEET FVG, Marguerite Granbassi, world champion, Olympic foil medalist, television presenter and “doc” from Trieste, who, interviewed by Giovanni Moro, central editor of DOVE, spoke about her hometown from an evocative image: “every time I go home – he says – the first thing I do is roll down the car window and breathe the sea.” While it is true that places and people are similar, the places at the heart of Granbassi are the magnificent Piazza Unità of Trieste, the largest in Europe overlooking the sea, and its Molo Audace immersed in the sea, symbol of the opening of the city. towards the world, to which also testifies Michele PittacoloParalympic cycling champion and Olympic medalist.
Returning from Australia for the World Cup trials, he had no doubt: “in Codroipo, in the province of Udine, where I live, the sunset is even more beautiful than that in the north” . A demonstration of love for his land, which crowned him cycling world champion in 2018 in Maniago, in the province of Pordenone, and which welcomes his two wheels in fairytale places like the award-winning cycle path of the 'Alpe Adria, which connects Salzburg. in Grado, the Marano lagoon, the star city of Palmanova, a UNESCO world heritage site. Or even Mount Lussari, in the Tarvisio region, also loved by Margherita Granbassi and capable of touching deep chords thanks to the spirituality that emerges there.
There was also room to play, in this installment of sports matches, when she took the stage Consuelo Mangifestaresponsible for external relations, events and communications for the Serie A Women's Volleyball League, on stage to announce the A1 Final Four Series and the A2 Series Final it will be on stage February 17 and 18 at PalaTrieste. Between dribbling and sketching dunks, the MEET FVG guests literally got involved.
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Between past and future: the dialogue between Fabrizio Nonis, Giulia Ceirano and Sara Caulfield
In all the encounters of the event, the places described came to life on stage with surprising force. Especially since the speakers were two experts in travel and secret itineraries, young content creators from the DOVE social team. Sarah Caulfield And Julia Ceirano. Interviewed by Manuela Florio, editor-in-chief of multimedia projects at DOVE, they weaved on stage a generational dialogue full of ideas with Fabrizio Nonis, journalist and butcher, author of the book Béké wordr, ambassador of taste and charismatic television personality, great connoisseur of the authenticity of Friuli-Venezia Giulia. He, born in Toronto to a Venetian father and a Friulian mother, is a sort of historical memory of these places and their flavors. They, professional globetrotters, crossed Friuli-Venezia Giulia for DOVE and fell in love with it.
And if Fabrizio Nonis was able to invent a riad where you can eat and speak Friulian in Marrakech, Sara Caulfield traveled the Wine and Flavor Route of Friuli-Venezia Giulia with the spirit of “life in a van”, at the search for silence and untouched places to go. trekking, while Giulia Ceirano investigated with the gaze of an anthropologist the dry stone walls of the Karst, gentle borders open to nature, and met young local producers who gave new life to the villages and new herds to the pastures. Giving the past a new meaning for the future.
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