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Torpignattara owes its name to piñatas, the amphorae set in the dome of the nearby mausoleum of S. Elena (dating back to the 4th century) which they served to lighten the weight and contain the lime. Located in the eastern quadrant of the capital, Torpignattara has been the scene of important redevelopment projects in recent years which have transformed it into one of the most thriving areas of street art.

Eco Museo Casilino is the name of the widespread art project which embraces the entire neighborhood. Torpignattara has a multi-ethnic vocation: it hosts five mosques and the Pisacane school, where the presence of children of immigrants exceeds that of children of Italian families. Torpignattara once welcomed citizens who emigrated from northern Italy and other Lazio provinces, now from all over the world.

In recent years it has transformed into a real open-air museum where you can admire examples of the best street art in all its forms: murals, stencil art, tape art. The area is very large, it would require more than one visit and in this review we offer you only a short selection of the works present. The article is intended above all to be a suggestion, an invitation to discover the urban art that characterizes Rome, rightly considered the European capital of street art.

In Torpignattara you will be surprised by the tallest mural in the capital, 32 metres, entitled Coffee Break. It is located in via Ludovico Pavoni 118 and was created by the Polish duo Etam Cru who portrayed a homeless man re-emerging from a dustbin intent on drinking a steaming coffee offered by the inhabitants of the area. The photograph of a social contrast made of discomfort and welcome at the same time.

The buildings in the area host the works of Jef Aérosol, undisputed pioneer of stencil art and C215, defined as the French Banksy. Obviously there is no shortage of the main Italian street artists such as Agostino Iacurci, Diavù, Etnik and the duo Sten & Lex. The Sardinian artist Tellas signs the choral work Erbarium created together with 15 other colleagues while the Spanish Dulk involves us in his comic nightmares.

An entire block in via di Torpignattara was painted by the Peruvian, now resident in Rome for years, Carlos Atoche, famous for creations with a Renaissance flavor (made with the contribution of the buildings' inhabitants). If you are lucky, as happened to me, you will be able to meet him on a staircase, all hooded so as not to be seen in the face, with brushes and paint.

The Cinema Impero is located on Via dell'Acqua Bullicante, an important route in the area. Outside, Diavù's works in the form of posters painted with the images of famous directors from Monicelli to Pasolini and actors such as Anna Magnani. The Empire was a cinema from the 1930s (there is another twin still in operation in Asmara, Eritrea). Closed for decades, today it hosts some artist residencies, a dance school and the MuRo cultural center, a project of the Urban Museum of Rome conceived by Diavù.

Nicola Verlato is instead the author in 2015 of the so-called Sistine Chapel of Torpignattara, a monochrome mural in shades of gray and with a biblical atmosphere, hidden inside an apartment building in via Galeazzo Alessi 215. It is called Hostia and is a tribute to Pasolini whose death is narrated. The signature of the French Atlas is instead the work itself and embraces the entire side wall of a building.

All Torpignattara's graffiti arise from projects studied and supported by two galleries: the Wunderkammern and the Art Gallery Varsi, as well as by the Alice nel Paese della Marranella association and by the dynamic neighborhood committee that promoted the I Love Torpignart project (with the aim of freeing the walls to make them available free of charge to the artists or directly producing murals). Furthermore, the owners of the properties themselves "offer" their facades as canvases for the creation of murals.--cc97a2b89169fc143104ffcf30e56c3c!