Tag: Sardinia

  • Mauro Morandi’s Thirty-Three Years of Solitude on Budelli Island

    Mauro Morandi’s Thirty-Three Years of Solitude on Budelli Island

    For over three decades, Mauro Morandi lived a life that most people can only imagine or fear. On Budelli Island, a tiny speck of land in Italy’s Maddalena Archipelago, Morandi found something modern society rarely offers: silence. From 1989 to 2021, he was the island’s sole resident, a self-appointed caretaker who traded conversation for contemplation,…