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THE MURALS OF ORGOSOLO

SARDINIA - SEPTEMBER 2009

In June 1969, at Pratobello, the population of Orgosolo opposed the Italian Army, which had occupied an area of the municipality, until then freely used for cattle farming, with the intention of creating a new military training camp. The army withdrew, but some anarchists from Milan created a mural signed Dioniso. It was the first in Orgosolo. In 1975, Francesco del Casino and some of his students started to paint murals throughout Orgosolo. Nowadays, there are circa one hundred fifty murals, most of them with a political background, which make the village famous...


"CIAO - WELCOME"


"YOU ARE HERE"


"THE VILLAGE"


"GARIBALDI"


"SARDINIAN CLAIMS - Including «Terra ai Contadini», the «Fight of Pratobello», «Il Capitalismo soffoca» and Emilio Lussu, head of the Sardinian Action Party..."


"SARDINIAN PEOPLE - Picture of a «bandito», after Lombroso..."


"TIENANMEN"


"PEOPLE - Including Gramsci, Neruda, Rosa Luxembourg, Charlot..."


"INTERNATIONALISM - Desmond Tutu, Ghandi, Larzac Fight and Salvador Allende"


"PICASSO"


"PAINTERS & PAINTINGS - Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Picasso, «Nullitá della Guerra», 9-11, Saddam..."


"HAPPY THE PEOPLE WHO DON'T NEED HEROES"

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