The banditry, bloody phenomenon covered with the code of silence

The first brutal and repeated episodes of banditry date back to the half of XVIII the century. These series of events brought bloodshed to Nuoro's area and to the adjacent zones, with a growing violence that produced a kind of code of silence in the local people. In order to avoid being involved in the vicissitudes, with possible consequences, the citizens preferred to pretend not to know anything and refused collaborating with the police forces, of which they often lacked a sense confidence (especially in the inner areas of Sardinia).

A culture that, in part, has arrived to the present time: not really in the city of Nùoro, but in the towns around Nuoro, the Barbagie and the Ogliastra area. A very complex phenomenon, studied by anthropologist and other students, that in part reflects the antique Barbaricino's Code.