Mirtoti 
Mirtoti. Not mirtesi or mirtensi: mirtoti. To the inhabitants of Mirto, a village of a thousand inhabitants built on a hill in the north-eastern Sicily, in front the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Aeolian Islands, likes to be called-and called-"mirtoti. It 'a dialect, of course, not the singular, and then declines with the "a", "mirtota", as is the case for "Cyprus" (as some Nordic and naive I wrote about Facebook recently, drawing my reprimands) . The group
"six mirtoto if, full of so many" goodies "on how to make typical mirtoti, made me think about what it means to be mirtoti. I used to do this in my comments and other mirtoti.
Mirtoti, until the sixties, it was whether it was born in Myrtle. Today I'm mirtoto as much as my peers are: none, from the seventies, was born in Myrtle, as the hospital Sant'Agata Militello. Theoretically, they are more mirtoto I-I's mother Myrtle, mirtese from a family for generations, and therefore half-full mirtoto of my own age who may not have parents mirtesi, was born in Sant'Agata has lived in Myrtle from a life. Prevail if the "ius sanguinis" in the definitions of identity, it would be so. But this is not what "mold" to be mirtoto. Being
mirtoti means to live in a small hilltop village but to love madly the sea. Capo D'Orlando is to go to work or whenever the commitments allow, and stroll through the streets of this small town thinking about Las Vegas or Paris. Capo D'Orlando-or rather, "Capoorlando", as some say-to mirtoti is not the only place where you go to sea, is also the place for shopping, meeting with other mirtoti, outputs on Saturday night for the kids who go to discos and mature couples who go to the restaurant. Capo D'Orlando is the wet dream of mirtoto, the paradise on earth, or rather at sea, the aspiration that every secret mirtoto respectfull: Do not be confused with the mountain.
Already, the mountaineers. Yes, because being mirtoti also means looking favorably on the progress made by countries that are above Myrtle Frazzanò and Long in the first place, then I feel pretty damn superior, more civilized, more purpose, more educated, even the most aesthetically beautiful. Of course not exactly so. But mirtoti signica be thought of as "other" than these countries, highest and most distant from the sea. Being
mirtoti means being drugged beauty: not only the lush vegetation only in Sicily but also the Aeolian Islands in the background, the sea postcard, rounded profiles Nebrodi behind a host of villages that the night like fireflies light up the valley , the monuments, the mild climate umidissimo though, even the beauty of the features of its inhabitants: it seems a joke, but finding a mirtoto-and even more of a bad-mirtota is difficult. So stunned by the beauty of landscape, climate, monumental beauty of the country, and so close to the sea and the mountains, the mirtoti we rest on our laurels. And so while neighboring countries are born initiatives of all kinds, Myrtle is often stopped to watch.
mirtoti be significant because it means not being together as much snubbed the "mountain people" who are driven by different climatic and environmental conditions and the distance from the coast to join the efforts. It means dividing everything up, with an escalation before each municipal election, I never understood what sense does not talk to each political opponents during the election period when in fact in everyday life we \u200b\u200bare friends. It means to boycott the work of the mayor of the right if you are left, and boycott the work of the mayor of the left if you're right. Being mirtoti means to be close friends the day before, and bitter enemies the next day, when another touches your "particular". The interest of the country is often the last place, and does not go hand in hand with the pride that's well belong to a country with extraordinary potential, where the party was not even when the Unit Messina c 'era. Being mirtoti also means making judgments about people completely different from month to month. Being
mirtoti means to love music, and listen to Janis Joplin, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Nirvana, when people listen to other villages Gigi D'Alessio. Being
mirtoti means having tasted the atmosphere that the much-envied Orlandini Orlandini and imitated-never have. Does said to have breathed the pure air of the hill, and wear long sleeves at the end of September when the evenings become cool and humid it gets in the bones, when you start going to eat mushrooms and chestnuts, along with fireplaces , scent the air. It means having played at the sports ground with his mouth, smoke or moisture have cheered on the sideline as if Myrtle had a team of Serie A. It means not having methane as the coast, and warm with stoves and fireplaces. It means going to the school bus, a coach often does not start because of the snow that is almost never at Myrtle, but much higher, but the people celebrate the same. Being mirtoti means waiting in the snow country, but often it steady in the near-Frazzanò the tradeoff here is the much vaunted closeness to the sea by mirtoti-and when it finally comes out into the street and how children look up to heaven as "pagghiazzìa. There are also those who shape the atmosphere being mirtoti, because memories are the basis of common people who are not living in Myrtle year-round, like me, could not have experienced. Being
mirtoti means loving Palermo, Messina snub and ignore Catania, a city, the latter half of the twentieth century until the early transfer of mirtoti, who came through the mountains. Being
mirtoti means not having an excessive cult of their patron saint, far away from the lavish celebrations for Saint Leo, San Lorenzo or San Calogero, patrons respectively Longi, Frazzanò Fitalia and San Salvatore, Santa Tecla is loved by mirtoti without excess, a little like the three Saints Alfio, Cirino and Philadelphia. Mirtoti just happened is told that, once, during a procession of wine drunk, fell down the statues of saints: a Longi would be put to public ridicule and excommunicated in the public square, in Mirto have made a poem later became the song. Being
mirtoti means thinking first about the stranger, and stun him with a friendly hospitality, only to gobble up and dissected not just do something weird, or worse, get into a circle mirtota. It means believing the caprileonesi crapitani-o-countrymen, and consider the two villages as one. For mirtoti villagers consider the neighbors means "attach", if only in practice, a wonderfully beautiful village but has always been considered an endangered species, for caprileonesi Myrtle approach amounts to a removal by hatred Rocca, first fraction of country itself and now shapeless agglomeration of tenements which have brought together people from all over the district. Being
mirtoti is to see that someone from outside come into town and say "quannu nni you going?" to ask "what will you be?" and have an unwelcome guest in the house to which it is said, however, not to mention just leave, "and cchi FFA, institutional nni you?" as if it were the last thing we want. Means say "appostu?" every time you meet a person even after a few minutes and the other always responds "tuttappostu. Being
mirtoti means to see the watch of Sant'Alfio, built in the early '900, the symbol of the country and have an almost physical need of the tolling of the bell, only to disregard the fact that weeds are grown for years on majolica dome. It means going out at night at ten thirty because before it is too early, so as to be desired (but who, if anyone comes out before that time for the same reason?). Being
mirtoti means always complain and then not always go to the facts, only to feel different from Messina "buddaci" but, as the inhabitants of the town, do the same thing that makes the province, only on a large scale.
to this reflection, listing pros and cons, someone, perhaps after a careless reading, you may argue, but why do you speak of what is wrong do not do something for the country? If someone took the comments to mourning, I'm sorry: I am only thinking about the positive and negative elements of Myrtle that stem not only from me but also the honesty of many mirtoti, shiny test supporters sometimes ingenious in their country. I spend a month and a half to Myrtle in the summer, and a few days in the rest of the year: I think I already do so, playing every year in the country, taking care of the website "mirto.info" a small address book that follows the bizarre my passion for meteorology and talking on the internet of the wonders of the country. It is up to those who live there all year to raise the country, and it would be hypocritical to accuse this or that administration, this or that party politics is something I must do all.
not have a recipe on the contrary to what one might think, I am not so arrogant as to have answers to tutto.Vi confess that I like so Mirto, with its beautiful imperfections. I always thought that Myrtle, with all its faults, has something special that goes beyond the breathtaking view, beyond the green woods beyond clean air, beyond the mild climate, to Beyond the beautiful sea, and beyond Alicudi Filicudi that seem to float on the ocean at sunset, beyond the pretty girls, beyond the bell with the tiles, beyond the alleys where time has stopped, the beyond the peace that reigns. Myrtle
attracts almost mystical anyone who was even for a few days, even after many years feel the need to return. I do not know why: so that's all.
Return to us: be mirtoti is, after all, have experienced at least the majority of these experiences for good or evil define the 'identity' mirtota.
I do not live in Myrtle, I have not tried and therefore can not be considered truly mirtoto, despite boasting-and-down mirtote.
'm a mirtoto spirit "that will do anything to see Myrtle become the favor it deserves. Moreover, in mirtoti, intelligence and capabilities were not lacking.
