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STRAMURALES,   

a best practice to share in Europe

Europe also focuses on Stornara and street art by approving the Erasmus + project "STRAMURALES - Participatory Urban Art as an European process of Adult Inclusion and Community Development" a project in which urban art and active citizenship become an example to follow able to foster inclusion and dialogue within the community through a participatory process that ends with the creation of four artistic works that will have Europe as main theme. In recent years, more and more projects in Europe have promoted the urban art as a tool for social inclusion, these are often interventions of great visual impact that aim to enhance streets and neighborhoods through the creation of unique works on their facades, buildings that otherwise would remain anonymous, helping to increase a sense of ownership to the community and improving the quality of life itself.

The STORNARA LIFE association has been organizing the STRAMURALES artistic exhibition for several years, thus managing to position the city of Stornara as the Apulian capital of Street Art. Thanks to its 83 splendid street art works created by well-known artists with the involvement of the entire community, this small town becomes in fact a real open-air museum of contemporary art. By August 2022, the aim is to have 100 completed artistic works. One of the purposes of the STORNARA LIFE association is to include Stornara in the now famous Italian circuits of villages with murals, so that it becomes a tourist destination for art lovers throughout the year. Close to the Gargano and to many Apulian tourist destinations, including religious ones, Stornara could become an immediate stop inland as the Apulian capital of Street Art, being a few tens of kilometers away from the most beautiful coasts of Italy, and also close to Monte Sant'Angelo and San Giovanni Rotondo.

This collective cultural process to be shared as a European educational opportunity and as a tourist attraction for the promotion of the territory is the basis of the approved european Erasmus+project "STRAMURALES - Participatory Urban Art as an European process of Adult Inclusion and Community Development" which will see the participation of important europeans partners such as SAMA - Street Art Museum Amsterdam, DESINCOOP – Guimaraes, Portugal and ACD La Hoya – Elche, Spain with the aim of including Stornara in an increasingly international dimension, providing greater expertise on the management of artistic inclusion paths of the Community, public administration and strengthening of European cooperation. In order to enhance the promotion of local heritage through street art, in addition to the four artistic works with a European theme, a publication will be produced containing the best practices and learning opportunities mapped by the European partners. 

The European project "STRAMURALES - Participatory Urban Art as an European process of Adult Inclusion and Community Development" represents a territorial strategy aimed at sharing good practices to trigger community processes.