When a geographic area, for geographic, economic or infrastructural reasons, remains isolated from the surrounding territory, it shows the signs of isolation with a certain degree of “backwardness”.
When I arrived in Sardinia I crossed the whole island by car from south to north, from Cagliari to Porto Torres and I was immediately struck by the landscape, especially that of the villages that overlook along the route of the state road.
The grazing light of dawn brought out the volumes of the houses with pitched roofs, some villages were arranged along the ridges of high and steep hills and seemed to be put on stage.
As usual, my attention was immediately captured by the basic elements of this architecture, the pure volume and the freshly finished surfaces: essential, rough, with soft colors.
Although we cannot deny the depopulation, especially of the innermost areas, the impression I had of Sardinia was not that of an underdeveloped region but that of a region strongly anchored to its traditions, a population with a strong identity in symbiosis with nature and a noticeable sense of beauty and armony.
