Pane cunzato di Scopello is the dressed-bread sandwich of a small Trapani coast village, and what defines it is that the dressing leans on the local tuna. The base is the familiar pane cunzato grammar: a split loaf of crusty country bread, warm, with a hard pour of olive oil into the open crumb. The Scopello hand then builds on it with the catch of its own coast, the tuna of the western Sicilian tonnara, alongside crushed ripe tomato, salted capers, dried oregano, and more olive oil. The tuna is the lead voice here where the inland versions lean on anchovy and cheese, so the loaf carries a fuller, oilier, sea-rich filling and reads as a Scopello sandwich before it reads as a generic cunzato.
The craft is the bread, the oil, and balancing the tuna against the caper and tomato. The loaf has to be a real crusty country bread with an open crumb so it soaks the oil and the tomato juice without going to paste, and the oil goes on while the bread still holds warmth so it draws in. The tuna is conserved, rich and oily, so the salted capers and the acid of the crushed tomato are worked in against it as the sharp counter that keeps the filling from reading as one heavy note, and the oregano is rubbed so it releases over the top. Salt is added carefully because the capers and the tuna's own cure already carry it. It is dressed and eaten promptly, while the oil-soaked crumb is still warm and the crust still gives against it.
The named turns stay in Sicily and lead on the town's own dressing: the base Sicilian pane cunzato with anchovy and cheese, and the Catania version with its shop-by-shop hand. Each of those is the same dressed-bread idea argued with a different larder, and each deserves its own article rather than being crowded in here.