
Lying in the green of a magnificent valley, at the foot of the wide mountain strip arching from the Pauli Ara hills with Mount St. Barbara, over to Mount Arrubiu, closing with the Su Sinzuru hill towards Sa Birdiera, Poggio dei Pini is thought of as a fortunate village by people who visit it, a village far away from the urban outskirts degraded by the tentacles of speculation, that besiege Cagliari and its suburbs.
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By the end of summer and the beginning of Autumn the fishermen go by sea to fish mullets. They fish only the females, the bigger ones, to open their stomach and pull out the egg bags: this is how you start preparing "bottarga".
The egg bags, once salted, are hung up to the air for a long dry out, one they are mature they become a dark orange colour and one of the most delicious specialities of the island.
The most productive areas are : the Gulf of Cagliari, Sarrabus, Ogliastra and the area around Oristano.(continues)