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Orgosolo

Province: Nuoro · Region: Sardinia · Population: 4,347 · Postal code: 08027

Orgosolo is an open-air gallery in the heart of Barbagia: since 1969 its façades have gathered more than one hundred and fifty murals — political, poetic, satirical — telling the shepherds' struggles, the Pratobello revolt against a military range, the world as seen by a village that never lowered its gaze.

The tenore chant, UNESCO-listed, resounds at community occasions; the Supramonte above the village opens holm-oak forests and limestone chasms to explore with guides. Lunch with the shepherds, pane frattau and roast suckling pig, is an institution of Barbagia hospitality.

The Orgosolo guide

Where to stay

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Events & festivals 1

Next up: Saint Peter the Apostle, patron of the village of two hundred murals, Tuesday 29 June

Getting there

Nearest airport: Olbia Costa Smeralda, 78 km away

Orgosolo is part of 🏘️ Villages

🎉 Festivals and feasts in Orgosolo 1

Patron saint festival In 258 days

Saint Peter the Apostle, patron of the village of two hundred murals

📅 Every year, on 29 June; the feast most deeply felt in the village, for Nostra Sennora de Mesaustu, falls on 15 August

Orgosolo celebrates Saint Peter the Apostle on 29 June in the 14th-century parish church of Santu Perdu; the feast most deeply felt in the village remains that of Nostra Sennora de Mesaustu, the Assumption of Mary, on 15 August, with a solemn procession of the sleeping statue.

What's around

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Near Orgosolo

The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.

Mamoiada Mamoiada Nuoro · 6 km Oliena Oliena Nuoro · 9 km Fonni Fonni Nuoro · 13 km Lodine Lodine Nuoro · 13 km Panoramic view of the town of Nuoro surrounded by Sardinian hills Nuoro Nuoro · 13 km Gavoi Gavoi Nuoro · 14 km

Places to see within 25 km

Outside Orgosolo, but an easy day trip away.

chiesa di San Donato 📍 Massimino · 9.3 km The parish church of San Donato in the hamlet of San Vincenzo, baroque, built between 1818 and 1820. monastero di Santo Stefano 📍 Millesimo · 14 km Baroque church and fifteenth-century cloister, Cistercian until 1802, now inside a private castle. castello di Millesimo 📍 Millesimo · 15 km Dismantled in 1553 so the French could not take it, the thirteenth-century keep is open again. Castello di Cairo Montenotte 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km The ruins of the Del Carretto castle above Cairo Montenotte, in the upper Bormida valley. Ferrania Film Museum 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km Six themed rooms in Palazzo Scarampi for the plant that made Ferrania a name in world cinema. castello di Dego 📍 Dego · 24 km Ruins at Cua, above the Val Bormida, and a Napoleonic path that climbs up to them.