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Gramsci’s Sardinia: the places of his youth

A Journey to the Oristano area through towns marked by the memory of a great Sardinian intellectual
you’ll be visiting places described by a great 20th-century personality

It’s an itinerary that pays homage to one of the of the 20thcentury’s protagonists of Sardinian and Italian literary history, a scholar and a big political personality. It makes stops in the villages he frequented during his childhood and adolescence. From Ales to Ghilarza, passing through Santu Lussurgiu, you’ll be visiting places surrounded by breathtaking scenery and rich in historical and cultural references.

Itinerary: 102 kilometres

Road journey time: 1 hour and 30 minutes

Ghilarza, childhood and adolescence

Travelling a further twenty kilometres, you will come to the house where Gramsci spent his childhood and adolescence. Today, it is a museum and cultural centre, exhibiting objects that belonged to him, for daily and work use, along with toys that he built himself, objects used in prison, documents, correspondence and books. By following the thematic itineraries, you can visit places dear to him and mentioned in his letters, like the church of San Pietro di Zuri and the novenary of San Serafino, a destination for devotional itineraries.

Ghilarza
Barigadu, a centre of culture in the heart of Sardinia, famous for being the place where Gramsci grew up and for its ancient sanctuaries, the art of…

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