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Carloforte, in brief.

San Pietro island, Genoese dialect, tuna.

The only town on the island of San Pietro, off the southwest coast, settled in the eighteenth century by Ligurian families.

Its people still speak a Genoese dialect and keep an old tuna-fishing culture, celebrated each spring at the Girotonno.

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