Orgosolo

Wall after wall is a canvas. Che Guevara stares from a pharmacy facade, a shepherd's face ten metres tall watches a piazza of stone benches, and slogans argue across house fronts. Orgosolo's murals layer decades of dissent, some repainted so often the arguments sit stacked beneath the surface.

Orgosolo sits in the Supramonte's shadow in Barbagia, central Sardinia's highland heart, a town shaped by pastoral culture and a long reputation for hard independence. In 1969 a local teacher, Francesco Del Casino, began painting political murals on its walls, and the practice never stopped: hundreds of works now colour the streets, running from land rights and anti-war protest to Sardinian identity, with fresh pieces still appearing. The village reads like a walkable archive of arguments, each mural dated and signed into its decade. Above town, the Supramonte's limestone gorges and holm-oak forest hold some of western Europe's wildest walking.