Orgosolo's houses have carried political argument on their facades since 1969, when the anarchist collective Dioniso arrived to record the concerns of Sardinian shepherds and left the first murals behind.
Francesco Del Casino, a mainland teacher, developed the practice further from 1975 with his students, and the town never stopped: more than seven hundred murals now cover Corso Repubblica and the lanes around it, addressing partisan history, anti-fascist resistance, war, women's rights and rural labor in bold, poster-like color. It reads less like street art curated for tourists and more like a shepherd town that decided to argue in public, in paint, for over fifty years running.
