I went for the first time in San Sperate when I was a teenager. It was my grandmother's hometown and I never visited it before, because she left it when she was very young.  I loved this place and here I had my first crush.
I went back when I was older, to connect with my roots. I embraced the normality, the simple life of what seemed to be an average village of the southern Italy, but that instead turned out to be the crossroad of many lives that get in contact because of art and creativity.

I just was a teenager when I went, for the first time, to my grandma's hometown, San Sperate. She just passed away and my parents needed to manage some estate sale.
We arrived in this small village, quiet and busy at the same time. There was some kind of art event going on and lots of mural paintings on the walls. We visited an artist who could make music with his sculptures and that took us around. I didn't know who he was, but he was cool indeed. We met other foreign kids of my age, but no parents with them. They were painting along the streets. Actually among them I noticed one, but I don't know if she saw me.
I came back to my city, I finished the studies.
I should say that now I am a musician looking for myself, my roots, trying to answer to: who am I and where am I going?
I went back to Sardinia, I found that there the cultural movement is still alive. I was very curious to discover something more about the people, the local culture, the history. I was living at Tzia Maria, an old lady who sold strawberries in spring and oranges in winter.
I was looking for some inspiration, so my daily routine was: going around, looking, making questions, and buying groceries.
One day I opened the door to a girl, who showed me some sketch, I couldn't understand her well because she was speaking Spanish. She asked about Tzia Maria. We ended up having lunch all together, speaking about the new mural that Ines was going to paint on the main facade of the house.
This is how it began

This story wants  to describe how big or small communities are a part of what makes Europe unique for its history and diversity.
The Paese Museo is just one of the examples on community involvement and active participation for the promotion of art and cultural exchange.
As we said in the introduction we define the first murals in the town as a cultural revolution that opened the community, also toward foreign cultures.
The continuous exchange among the traditional values of the community of San Sperate and the guest artists led to the birth of a valuable Heritage that lies not just along the walls and on public spaces, but also in the souls of the people that were involved in this exchange.
To spread awareness of this good practices as well as the beauty of the European Heritage is an important step to strengthen the sense of membership, and inclusion at different levels.
This story wants to underline that geographical borders, as well as cultural roots, have a different definition nowadays compared to the past century. Knowing and understanding the real forces that lead to some specific event or site, is an opportunity and a key to understand  where we live in, its society, history and  to accept the differences, toward a peaceful cohabitation.