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"Fonni, with its sliver houses and its stone paths, defies the winds and lightning". This is how Grazia Deledda described this small village which, located at 1,000 meters above sea level, is the highest in Sardinia.

Orgosolo is one of the most famous towns in Sardinia. It is best known for its more than 350 political-themed murals, scattered among the narrow stone alleys.

Marmoiada genannt das Maskendorf

From 1903 to 1917 there was a bloody family feud (disamistade) in Orgosolo. According to tradition, the trigger was the dispute over the inheritance of the richest Orgolese, Diego Moro, who died in 1903. The feud divided the population into two hostile halves and in these years more than 50 people fell victim to the blood feud. After reconciliation seemed to have been achieved through trials in 1917, the disamistade broke out again after about 30 years. The threat of blood revenge, but also the occupation by the Carabinieri and the arbitrary arrests of the “mainland” authorities once again drove men to hide in the mountains and thus often become bandits. They were usually assured of support from the village population against the hated carabinieri. Orgosolo was declared a “bandits’ nest”. “The headquarters of the outlaws, where people suck in hatred with their mother’s milk” was written in Italian newspapers.

In 1894, 500 armed Orgolese stormed and plundered the town of Tortolì in order to steal the assets of a large landowner; many of them died in the process. The raids by Sardinian mountain dwellers known as Bardanas are documented from Roman times to the 19th century.

In the resistance against the numerous conquerors of Sardinia, a bandit culture was formed, which also became the subject of criminological studies in the 19th century. Alfredo Niceforo, a follower of Cesare Lombroso, created the myth in his book Crime in Sardinia that Sardinians were predestined for crime.

Immediately below the demon warrior, a small fountain with benches

Warrior with four eyes and four arms, found in the nearby region of the Nuragic sanctuary of Abini, and later became a symbol of Nuragic bronze art. In the center of Teti there is a representation of him in basalt, 4 meters high.