Street art: where to find the most beautiful murals in Romagna

It is perhaps a little-known aspect, but the land of Romagna is rich in... street art: cities and towns are literally invaded by works of urban art created by the most famous Italian and international street artists. Here is where you can find the most beautiful murals in Romagna: we propose here some itineraries to discover street art to be made within a single city or you can trespass from one city to another for a single tour in the name of this art that fascinates young and old alike. An open-air museum to visit, better if in company, and enjoy at the same time the beauty of this area that makes hospitality one of its greatest strengths.

Ravenna

The city of mosaics has also become for the past few years a small capital of street art: there are in fact more than eighty works of urban art scattered throughout the city, from the Darsena area to the streets of the historic center. This is due in large part to the Subsidenze Festival, curated by Marco “Bonobolabo” Miccoli of the Indastria Association, which since 2014, every year, in collaboration with the Ravenna City Council’s Department of Youth Policies, has been an unmissable event for young artists and street art enthusiasts.

The neighborhood where the most murals are concentrated in Ravenna is the Darsena area, which has undertaken a gradual process of redevelopment. It is advisable to follow a loop route (on foot about two hours; by bike about an hour) that, starting from the head of the Darsena, takes you first to Via Grado, and from there to what has recently been called the “Citadel of Street Art” (the popular complex accessed from Via Gulli), then back to Via Trieste and finally overlooking the Darsena dock. You will encounter works by Ericailcane, Bastardilla, Millo, Jim Avignon, Basik, Pixel Pancho, Qbic, Tellas, Camilla Falsini, Zed1, Dzia, Hope, Dissenso Cognitivo, Geometric Bang, About Ponny, Reve +, Exit Enter and many others. Among them, P.G.R. by Ericailcane, a large water monster pocsto on the wall of Mangimificio Martini on Solona Street; At the beginning of the journey of our life by Millo on Tommaso Gulli Street, which pays homage to Dante Alighieri by depicting a child Dante and Virgil playing with some objects related to Dante’s journey; Pixel Pancho’s The Last Kiss on a wall of a working-class housing complex on Via Trieste; Basik’s The Incredulity of Saint Thomas, also on Via Tommaso Gulli, which pays homage to Alberto Burri’s Great Iron R; and Rustam Qbic’s Immigration on Via Fiume, which depicts large birds in blindfolded flight guided by hooded figures. Leaving the Darsena and going to Via Pasolini, on the outside wall of the “F. Mordani” Primary School, one can admire the Dante created by Kobra. In the stadium area, the Itis gymnasium hosts Millo’s large mural with two connected but distant boys; in Punta Stilo Street Zed1 has painted his Money eaters. Then there are Invader’s forty or so small colorful tiles inspired by the monsters and invaders from the video game Space Invaders (you can go look for them by downloading the free FlashInvaders App. And again, on Cavour Street one of Lediesis’ SuperWomen, their Frida Kahlo; and finally, underwater characters with mask and snorkel by BLUB from the series The Art Can Swim.

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Rimini

The Rimini tour to discover street art starts from Piazza sull’Acqua, in the Invaso del Ponte di Tiberio (Tiberius Bridge Invasion): in fact, Ericailcane’s mural with the rooster, symbol of Romagna, and the peacock, linked to Fellini’s Amarcord, is located here. Continuing into Borgo San Giuliano, the facades of the houses in the characteristic neighborhood are dedicated to Federico Fellini and his most famous films, including various scenes from La Dolce Vita and Amarcord, as well as scenes from the daily lives of the borghigiani. Also in Borgo San Giuliano, on the facade of the house at 1 Marecchia Street, there is a small mural by street artist Eron titled Soul of the wall that depicts an elderly woman with her hands behind her back who seems to be looking down on passersby.

On Ducale Street, on the other hand, the colorful work by Colombian writer Bastardilla stands out. Strolling along the quay of the Canal Harbour where smaller boats moor, one will find oneself amid colorful and large works again, all the way to the Rimini Pier. The tour ends at the Artists’ Promenade, where murals tell the story of the place and its characters, the sea and life in seafaring. Here the works are accompanied by phrases and poems in Rimini dialect by Guido Lucchini.

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Saludecio

The village has almost forty murals on the facades of its houses and buildings: for this reason Saludecio is known as the City of Painted Walls. A member of the Italian Association of Painted Towns network, the village has held the Ottocento Festival every summer since 1991, which leaves a mural each year.

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In 2018, the town inaugurated MURALI, a festival dedicated to street art. On this occasion, curator Marco Miccoli invited street artists from all over Italy, including Millo, Eron, Camilla Falsini, Zed1, and Moneyless, to create works on the Italian Constitution. The festival kicked off again in 2019 with new murals dedicated to the Italian Risorgimento reinterpreted by Spain’s Hyuro, France’s Sema Lao and Italians Basik and Andrea Ravo Mattoni.

Santarcangelo di Romagna.

The town holds works of urban art by Ericailcane, Eron, Dem, Allegra Corbo, Hitnes, Run and Zbiok, Bastardilla, Andreco, Tracy Pica Pica, Nicola Alessandrini, and Basik. Among the most notable works are Ericailcane’s The Search for Utopia and Eron’s Tower to the people, which depicts a raised fist composed of flowers meant to celebrate the strength of gentleness, the power of nonviolence, the victory of kindness, love versus hate, the intensity of poetry, the perfection of harmony, and people’s desire for freedom and peace.

Street art: where to find the most beautiful murals in Romagna

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