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Street Art

As seen on the streets of Athens: a street art guide

Athens, seen from above, is a white ocean of roofs meeting the Mediterranean sea somewhere at the horizon.

Athens, street view, is a very colourful town: posters, installations, kiosks and a lot of street art (a lot, really a lot!), including several large outdoor murals.

Some of them were made possible though various creative projects set up by the Athens Municipality (especially before the Olympic Games of 2004), which involved some well-known local street artists, many of whom are from the Athens School of Fine Arts (which runs a programme of street art studies, by the way).

Athens Street Art

An evening with STMTS

Stamatis loves Toulouse-Lautrec, Rembrandt and Dalì, but also fellow street artists such as Blu, Roa and the Greek artist Alexandros Vasmoulakis.

Walking around downtown Athens you will surely notice his paste-up works: large and colorful sketches of children’s expressive faces.

Thanks to a common friend, I had the chance to meet Stamatis while I was in Athens and we had an interesting talk about his art and the overall Athens’ street art scene.

Salerno Street Art

One day in Salerno: between street art and lighting art

I am not a religious person, but I’ve always liked Christmas because it meant two weeks away from school, or –now- from my desk job (well… it’s actually less than two weeks, but still… it’s holiday time!).

While I am counting down the days to my week in Athens, I decided that I deserved a vacation anticipation and so I organised a day-trip to Salerno with my parents. Thanks to the high-speed train, it took us only two hours to get to Salerno, which made me add it to my list of perfect day-trips from Rome.

Another Rome || Tuscolano Street Art

The MURo walking tour: and so I’m back graffiti hunting at Quadraro

Lucamaleonte M.U.Ro. Quadraro street art Roma

You already know how much I like M.U.Ro., the Urban Art Museum of Rome.

At the very top of my Top 10 off-the-beaten path spots in Rome, M.U.Ro. gives to all street art lovers the hope that even the ancient and classical Rome could become a street art’s Mecca.

Since my last visit in February 2014 many new murals have been painted and I was looking forward to coming back to check them out!

Street Art Tuscany

Arcidosso: Tuscany beyond stereotypes

Don’t get me wrong: I love Tuscany, and this short week long weekend between Volterra, Siena and Pisa was fantastic.

But after five days surrounded by gentle hills, fascinating autumn shades, geometrical vineyards, perfectly lined cypresses and olive trees, I needed something different.

Road - Trip Street Art Tirana

Tirana’s painted buildings

Visiting Tirana wasn’t into my travel plans but, as soon as I learnt that Tirana’s former mayor Edi Rama (who currently is the Prime Minister of Albania) is also a painter, I longed to see the colourful outcomes of his multiple mandates.

Considering his job of mayor of Tirana as “the supreme form of conceptual art”, Edi Rama brought new life to the huge socialist buildings characterising the capital town of Albania as a promise of a brighter and colourful future after the grey years represented by the Albanian past.