Mural Towns of Italy
By Dion Protani
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Latest update: 30 December 2023
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The mural towns of Italy detailed here are something of a modern phenomenon in the country. In most cases, they're little villages off the beaten path that have created a new way of attracting visitors.
Each of the towns and villages below are open-air galleries where the very houses and other public buildings have been transformed by the murals on their walls. The paintings themselves are known as murales, a Spanish word that's found its way into Italian to represent this particular art form. A particular hotbed of mural towns is Basilicata with the two nearby villages of Sant'Angelo Le Fratte and Satriano di Lucania. |
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