The Mediterranean Cooking Congress, the traveling event along the Mediterranean coasts created by the By Tourist company, returns in April 2026, with the aim of informing, promoting, and protecting the primary environmental resources of the Mediterranean coasts. The focus of the 2026 edition will be water and citrus fruits. Stabia and the Sorrento Peninsula will be the main protagonists. The event locations will be the Stabia Main Port and the historic center of Castellammare di Stabia, with its 28 springs, featuring press tours and fam trips that will see international guests visit and taste, from sea to land, the environmental beauties and flavors of the coastal strip, from Castellammare di Stabia to Massa Lubrense. Pasta Tasting, wine and lemon tours, the Schito artichoke, vegetable gardens and biscuits, cooking classes, chefs from international pleasure crafts, guided tastings with the waters of Castellammare di Stabia led by water sommeliers, sea itineraries to the Punta Campanella marine protected area, renowned chefs from the Campanian coast, producers and experts from the world of taste and gastronomic and maritime tourism, tourist agencies, and international charter brokers. These will be the ingredients of the seventh edition of the Mediterranean Cooking Congress.
“Our journey along the Mediterranean coasts has been on hold since 2020, first due to Covid and then due to the war-related issues affecting the lower Mediterranean since 2022,” explains Pino Sangiovanni, founding partner of By Tourist srl. “Unfortunately, waiting for the evolution of international policies is proving to be a futile choice; we have therefore decided to resume the journey, starting from our happy island: Campania. Hence the choice to start the navigation from a unique international port in the Mediterranean, the Stabia Main Port of Castellammare di Stabia, a tourist landing for mega and giga yachts up to 180 meters. In just a few years, Stabia Main Port has become an important economic engine for the coastal strip, and is ensuring a significant influx of luxury tourism to the entire Vesuvian and Sorrento area, with great benefits for the related industries and commerce, including for the mountain and foothill municipalities,” continues
Sangiovanni. “An entrepreneurial reality that is a gateway to the Old Town and located in the heart of Castellammare di Stabia; a place identified for centuries as the city of waters, given the presence of 28 springs. A primary resource that feeds both sea and land, from Stabia to the Sorrento Peninsula. Following the water routes, we will therefore narrate, visit, and taste the territory, sailing from Castellammare di Stabia to Massa Lubrense.”
The seventh edition of the Mediterranean Cooking Congress will feature a week of events, from April 20th to 26th, 2026, from Stabia Main Port to Massa Lubrense.
