Rodi Garganico at the top of the sports world with the Offshore World Championship

“The internationalization of the Gargano is sport and entertainment within everyone’s reach”, thus begins the day of Giampaolo Montavoci, the president of the Off-Shore Commission of the FIM – International Power Boating Federation who arrived at the Tourist Port of Rodi Garganico last night and is coordinating the preparations together with the “Team del Porto” led by Vincenzo di Battista, site manager of Rhodes. “It is a great pleasure for the FIM, – says Montavoci – to be welcomed with this quality of services: the Tourist Port is excellent and the fact that the Municipality of Rhodes and the Puglia Region have believed so much in this Championship is already for us a first great result. When the entrepreneurs meet administrators such as the Puglia Region Sports Councilor Raffaele Piemontese and the Mayor D’Anelli, virtuous paths of great breadth are triggered “. “Puglia is now a cardinal point in the international compass of travel desires. If it has happened it is also because the material and intangible elements of the” Puglia “identity have become the scene of major sporting events. In reorienting regional policies on sport and on tourism, we have focused our efforts on new markets and demands “. This is how the Vice President of Puglia Raffaele Piemontese comments on the regional programming, adding: “We understand well the importance we attach, therefore, in hosting, for the first time, the Offshore World Championship“ Gran Prix of Italy – Puglia Region Trophy “.” We are on the eve of four days of great challenges in the water and great emotions in the pits. From the spectators’ side, we already know that the show and the adrenaline will add new emotions to the impact that already determines Rodi Garganico and the tourist port of Rodi Garganico. We hope that all the teams, the organization and whoever accompanies this great sporting event will forever preserve a positive memory of these Apulian and Gargano days: unique experiences linked to our villages, our natural heritage, our cultural heritage, our food or to our traditions, as well as to the Adriatic Sea and its “ancient vocation to unite”, dating back to the myth of Diomede “.” Rodi Garganico is increasingly a “sea story to love”, says the Mayor of Rodi Garganico Carmine d ‘Anelli, underlining the importance of the “old pier, to which I too am bound by indelible memories, first as a lively child and then as a young dreamer. It is precisely to my dreams, to my memories of historical tales, first of all of great men and true sailors that the desire and the spark to try together with my fraternal friend Donato Petrosino what our parents had longed for: the Port ! A real port, built in less than two years that has redeemed those who had wanted it and never had it. The tourist port of Rodi Garganico that all of Italy finally knows. We are preparing to welcome the first OffShore World Championship in the history of the Gargano, together with the many related events. It is an event that will bring the photos of our country to the sports and worldly magazines of the world. This is the best way to promote. With ever greater commitment, we will continue on this path “.” On behalf of the whole Citizenship, – continues the Mayor of Rings – I address all the participants, the technicians, the organizers, and the important guests of the “Grand Prix of Italy – Puglia Region Trophy – Mario Paolo Masiero Memorial ”, the warmest welcome to our city. A special thanks goes to the Puglia Region which strongly supported this event, to the UIM Union Internationale Motonautique which from Montecarlo awarded our city the Offshore World Championship, to the FIM Italian Motorboat Federation and to the Motorboat Association of Venice, promoters of the candidacy of Rodi Garganico since January 2020. Sport has always been a moment of aggregation, as well as competition, and I am sure that this sporting event will be an opportunity to make known at an international level the great beauty that only the territory of Gargano and the sea that surrounds it can offer “.