Top 10 Places To Admire Street Art In Rome

A historic southern Roman district edified around the 1910s for industrial purposes, the Ostiense area has recently hosted a redevelopment project named Ostiense District. In between the several industrial archeological findings such as the Gasometer and the Centrale Montemartini, you can admire several street art pieces signed by ROA, Sten&Lex, Lucamaleonte and many others. Be sure to spot those under the railway bridge on Via Ostiense, where poets and politicians buried just few metres away in the Non-Catholic Cemetery for Foreigners are celebrated.

Just outside an (apparently) ordinary apartment block just behind Via Cristoforo Colombo, you will find a street art piece depicting Welcome to Shanghai,in memory of the original nickname of the area. This is the ultimate goal set by the project named Big City Life:creatively reconverting the area without forgetting its roots. The typical block has been turned into an open air museum where each of its 11 buildings has been adopted by a famous street artist (like Mr Kleva, Jerico, SETH).

Away on the Prenestino area, an ex-residential area which now has been gentrified, lies a place hard to describe. Born after the sale of an old cured pork meat factory in 2009, the MAAM is now a space which expresses all its multicultural vitality through its walls and its astonishing street art. It can be visited each Saturday.