No one dares to speak as smoke from a massive bonfire billows and twirls into a thick haze in the remote mountain town of Mamoiada. Flaming logs crack open, echoing through central Sardinia’s rugged ...

The first time Salvatore Gungui transformed into a Mamuthone, he was 14 years old. He pulled on the traditional leather-soled shepherd’s boots, velvet pants and jacket and wrapped himself in a heavy ...

A mysterious, ancient tradition takes place each year in Mamoiada, a small village tucked into the middle of wild and mountainous Sardinia. On the day of Saint Anthony, the saint protector of animals ...

There will be space for the popular traditions of Sardinia at the Expo, inaugurated on April 13, and which will continue until October 13 in Osaka, Japan, which has already hosted this event in 1970.

Since ancient times, a town on the Italian isle has marked the season with a grim costumed festival Made Possible Through the Support of Loaded with leather and sheepskins, Salvatore Gungui tightens ...