Coloured murales to speak about freedom and peace

Thematic drawings, (generally set in the social and politic world, but also about nature and fantasy or scenes of rural and agrestic life) on outside walls of houses, mostly on those which hug the main streets: the "murales" are an attraction of these towns: Aritzo, Fonni, Mamoiada, Orgosolo, San Sperate, Serramanna, Serrenti e Villamar. They talk about justice and freedom, they evoke figures and traditional activities (in particular in the centres of the Barbagie).

The first murale is dated 1969: in Orgosolo, an anarchical group of Milan released youth protest of that period. From then on, lots of murales colour the buildings of some sardinian towns.

The "murales" not only give a note of colour to the houses, sometimes sad (but beautiful because old) of this town: they express deep meanings as if they were figuratives poetries. In many cases they are a protest voice against the abuses of the powerful. Often it is possible to see very beautiful paintings also on the verge of mountain roads, on granite rocks or basalt rocks in the middle of the vegetation.

We should pay attention and not confuse the murales with the more modern activity of the “writers”, teenagers and young people, who express their art mostly in the big inhabitated centres (as it happens all around the world), sometimes coming into conflict with institutions and the owners of houses defaced with spray colours.