With a message on social media, the Costa Smeralda Consortium also greets Pasqualino Pirina: the over one hundred year old of the Costa Smeralda passes away at the age of 107.

The homage was posted today, but Ziu Pascalinu, as those who knew him called him in Gallurese, disappeared yesterday, at his home in Lu Postu, in the ancient Monti di Mola.

In recent years, the story of the longest-living man in Gallura, celebrated (among others) by the Municipality of Arzachena with an award given to him by the mayor Roberto Ragnedda in person, and by the Hotel Cala di Volpe with a five-star cake accompanied by greeting card in Gallura from Franco Mulas, Costa Smeralda Area Manager, had been around the world.

Born on 7 June 1916 in the village of Santa Teresina, in the countryside of the Costa Smeralda when the Costa Smeralda was called Monti di Mola, Pasqualino was very attached to his land: a former shoemaker, war veteran, widower for several years of his wife Quirica, from whom he had two children, was grandfather of two grandchildren.

«Nobody knows the secret to getting to this age, but certainly life is good here», he used to say, listing the ingredients of his elixir of life: fresh air, healthy food and local wine, long walks and little stress. And the passion for the native places.

And the mind immediately goes to the spot message of the over 100-year-old Smeralda, an institution in Arzachena and its surroundings, which a few summers ago had become the protagonist of a video to invite everyone to the Costa Smeralda. «Come, people who feel good here», said uncle Pasqualino, behind him the rock symbol of the entrance to the paradise created by Prince Karim Aga Khan in the early 60s.

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