Vox Populi Roma, quartiere San Basilio - IV Municipio

The San Basilio neighborhood is located in the northeast of Rome, in the 4th Municipio (Municipio IV), an urban area with a strong popular identity. San Basilio faces many challenges today, related to social marginalization, unemployment, and crime, but it is a transforming area where historical difficulties are accompanied by experiences of participation, associations, and redevelopment projects. We discussed this in the latest episode of Vox Populi Roma with the president of the 4th Municipio, Massimiliano Umberti. In recent years, San Basilio has become one of the most intense laboratories of Roman street art, thanks primarily to the SanBa project, launched in 2014 from an idea by the WALLS association and led by curator Simone Pallotta. This public art project has transformed the neighborhood into an open-air museum. The walls speak of social redemption, of indelible roots, and of a region attempting to rewrite its image through the colors and stories of artists. This project explores how contemporary art can connect with the social complexity of suburban neighborhoods. The heart of the SanBa project is the main square bordered by Via Arcevia and Via Treia, where you can admire the striking six monumental 14-meter-high facades, created freehand by Roman artist Hitnes. The murals are inspired by the world of nature and animals. The intertwining of oversized plants and animals has created an oasis of beauty, a fragment of nature and color, contrasting with the gray concrete, a nameless square transformed into an enchanted forest. Another neighborhood, another market. The president of Mercati D'Autore, Antonio D'Angelo, accompanied us to the covered local market of San Basilio. In the San Basilio neighborhood, the WeWorld Women's Space Center is a place for women and children to meet, listen, share, and participate, as Giulia Paparelli, an anti-violence worker with the Be Free Cooperative, told us. #voxpopuli #roma #sanbasilio Music: Fantasize - Saltonbria