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Orgosolo, in brief.

Murales political murals, Barbagia.

A shepherd town high in the Barbagia, its houses covered with some two hundred murals.

These open-air paintings, begun in the 1960s, turn the village walls into a chronicle of political struggle, island history and rural life.

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Orgosolo Murals, Italy

Orgosolo Murals

The Barbagia shepherd town whose walls have carried political murals since 1969.

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