Street Festival / Festival of Flavors
Three days of street art, flavors, and music in the heart of Castel Maggiore
About Street Festival
A festival that redevelops the city
The Street Festival, combined with the Festival of Flavors, is the major spring event in Castel Maggiore, a Municipality in the Metropolitan City of Bologna in Emilia-Romagna. For three days, Via Matteotti, with its railway underpass, and Piazza Pace transform into an open-air stage where urban art meets taste and live music.
The Skills Graffiti Jam
The heart of the event is the Skills Graffiti Jam, a large street art gathering designed to redevelop the Via Matteotti underpass through a collective artistic intervention. Around thirty writers from different cities come together to create new mural works, bringing beauty and identity back to an often-overlooked urban space. The initiative is coordinated by Antonio Colaci and Niccolò Chiarini and stems from the collaboration between the Pro Loco, a crew of writers, and friends of the Salotto dell'Artista, with the aim of promoting intergenerational cultural exchange.
Flavors, market, and music
Alongside the murals, the festival offers a rich gastronomic experience: the Festival of Flavors with stands of typical products, food trucks, the Tuscan market, and areas dedicated to families with inflatables in front of the Town Hall. Providing the soundtrack are buskers, live music, and vinyl sets that accompany the public throughout the event.
A community event on the outskirts of Bologna
The Street Festival is a free event open to all, designed to bring together residents, families, street art enthusiasts, and curious visitors from Bologna and the surrounding plains. To allow the writers to work and activities to take place, the Via Matteotti underpass is closed to vehicular traffic on Saturdays and Sundays. The result is a festival that combines fun, taste, and urban regeneration, leaving the city with a concrete legacy in the form of new murals.
Street Festival — edition 2026
The 2026 edition of the Street Festival took place from Friday, May 15 to Sunday, May 17 in Castel Maggiore, animating Via Matteotti, the railway underpass, and Piazza Pace with a widespread program of urban art, food and wine, and music.
The protagonist was the Skills Graffiti Jam, with about thirty writers at work to redevelop the Via Matteotti underpass. Alongside the mural interventions, the public enjoyed the Festival of Flavors, food trucks, the Tuscan market, inflatables for the little ones, and lots of live music.
Programme Street Festival 2026
Friday, May 15
Opening of the festival in Piazza Pace with the stands of the Festival of Flavors, the food trucks, and the inflatables for children in front of the Town Hall.
Saturday, May 16
- From 8:30 AM: closure of the Via Matteotti underpass to traffic and start of the Skills Graffiti Jam, with writers at work on the walls.
- All day: Festival of Flavors, Tuscan market, food trucks, buskers, and live music.
- In the evening: large DJ set and activities organized by friends of the Salotto dell'Artista.
Sunday, May 17
From 6:00 AM, the underpass is closed to traffic for the completion of the Skills Graffiti Jam murals. The festival continues all day with flavors, market, food trucks, and music until 9:00 PM.
Numerous writers participated in the Skills Graffiti Jam, including Rusty and Dado, along with Moe, Twik, Skase, Benza, Mer, Reks, Onem, Blatta, Mace, Nynk, 2neko, Run, Panda, Meac, Demz, Dub, Hentai, Joke, Siner, Rich, Sestone, Skyscrapr-1, Saem, Hokum, Ice, Losc, and Smaer. Artistic coordination by Antonio Colaci and Niccolò Chiarini.
Highlights Street Festival 2026
Prices Street Festival 2026
Practical information — Street Festival
Where
Via Matteotti (with the railway underpass) and Piazza Pace, Castel Maggiore (BO), 40013.
How to get there
Castel Maggiore is located a few kilometers north of Bologna. By train, Castel Maggiore station is on the Bologna-Verona line, very close to the festival area. By car, it can be reached from SP4 Galliera or from the Bologna Arcoveggio/Interporto exit, with parking available in the surrounding streets.
Traffic regulations
The Via Matteotti underpass is closed to vehicular traffic on Saturdays from 8:30 AM to 10:00 PM and on Sundays from 6:00 AM to 9:00 PM.
Admission
Free entry to all areas and activities of the event.
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Where does it take place — Street Festival
Via Matteotti e Piazza Pace
Via Matteotti, 40013 Castel Maggiore