A drying oven for painted elements, comprising: - a plurality of cages or mats designed to contain said painted elements; - an infeed station for said painted elements; - an outfeed station for said painted elements; - at least one column of housings shaped in such a way as to house respective cages or mats, said housings being associated with respective air outlets configured to define zones with different air speeds, temperature and/or humidity inside said drying oven ; - a movement system , operatively associated with said column of housings, equipped with movement means configured to transport each cage or mat along a drying path defined by said infeed station , from at least one respective housing of said column and from said outfeed station , said at least one housing of said drying path defining a drying station wherein a respective cage or mat is preset in a zone at a specific air speed, temperature and/or humidity said air outlets being equipped with opening means which can be opened and/or closed, even partially, in such a way as to define specific air flows for each housing characterised in that the air outlets comprise fans for introducing and extracting the outside air and the outlets of a respective housing are independent of each other, in such a way as to generate a specific internal flow for each of said housings, determining different zones at different air speed, temperature and humidity as a function of the different kind of paints, in such a way to define different range of air speed, temperature and humidity inside each of said drying stations and wherein, in one of said drying stations, said cage or mat containing a specific painted element remains for a preset periods of drying time. - a plurality of cages or mats designed to contain said painted elements; - an infeed station for said painted elements; - an outfeed station for said painted elements; - at least one column of housings shaped in such a way as to house respective cages or mats, said housings being associated with respective air outlets configured to define zones with different air speeds, temperature and/or humidity inside said drying oven ; - a movement system , operatively associated with said column of housings, equipped with movement means configured to transport each cage or mat along a drying path defined by said infeed station , from at least one respective housing of said column and from said outfeed station , said at least one housing of said drying path defining a drying station wherein a respective cage or mat is preset in a zone at a specific air speed, temperature and/or humidity said air outlets being equipped with opening means which can be opened and/or closed, even partially, in such a way as to define specific air flows for each housing characterised in that the air outlets comprise fans for introducing and extracting the outside air and the outlets of a respective housing are independent of each other, in such a way as to generate a specific internal flow for each of said housings, determining different zones at different air speed, temperature and humidity as a function of the different kind of paints, in such a way to define different range of air speed, temperature and humidity inside each of said drying stations and wherein, in one of said drying stations, said cage or mat containing a specific painted element remains for a preset periods of drying time. <EOS>