Ostiense: the murals and the power station
Statues among the turbines, a wall of murals, and a gasometer the size of the Colosseum. This is a Claude-drafted route awaiting the editor's walk.

1. Via del Porto Fluviale mural
Start at Blu's enormous facade on a former air-force barracks — dozens of faces with eyes made from the building's own windows, painted in 2014. It set the tone for the whole quarter's street art. Stand across the road to take in the scale.

2. Eataly Roma / Air Terminal Ostiense
The 1990 air terminal that never really worked as one, now Rome's flagship Eataly. You don't have to buy anything; walk through for the cathedral-of-food scale and the view back over the rail yards.

3. Centrale Montemartini
Rome's first public power station, now a museum where classical marble gods stand against black diesel engines and turbines. The contrast is the curation — Venus in front of a boiler. The quietest great museum in the city; go for the *Sala Macchine*.

4. Gazometro
The skeletal iron gasometer, built in the 1930s and the tallest in Europe in its day — 90-odd metres of empty frame, Rome's accidental Eiffel Tower. You can't go in, but the streets around Via del Commercio give you the full hulk against the sky.

5. Ponte di Ferro / Ponte dell'Industria
The 1863 iron bridge over the Tiber, built for the new industrial quarter. It carried the city's first gasworks traffic; a fire damaged it in 2021 and it's been repaired. Walk to the middle for the river and the gasometer framed together.

6. Garbatella station and the murals of Via dei Conciatori
Loop back east through Ostiense's mural streets toward Garbatella. The walls change every year — that's the point of the *quartiere*'s open-air gallery. Metro B home is at Garbatella when you've had your fill of paint.

Ostiense: the murals and the power station