Street Art on Metro C Construction Silos at Piazza Venezia, Rome

The Rome city council has launched an initiative to transform the construction silos of the Metro C line at Piazza Venezia into site-specific street art works using eco-friendly, smog-eating paints. The project aims to mitigate the visual impact and air pollution caused by the long-term construction site, which will reshape the city center for the next decade. Svetlana Celli, president of the Capitoline Assembly, announced the plan, emphasizing the need to balance urban development with landscape protection. Artists will be selected through a formal procedure, and the proposal will be reviewed by the Giulio Cesare chamber. The initiative references the largest green mural in Europe (250 sqm) at Garbatella metro station, created by Maria Ginzburg with Airlite anti-smog paint.