Street Art in Valencia, Spain

Posted on 29. Aug, 2011 by Dany in Destination Tips, Europe, Europe, Spain, Spain

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As passionate street art fans, Valencia is something similar to our Mecca. The Spanish city is teeming with unique graffiti and murals, which makes for fascinating sightseeing throughout local neighborhoods!
Barrio Carmen in the historic center is a neighborhood filled with quirky bars, shops and restaurants, along with some terrific street art:

Not only walls are used as a canvas – doors, roller shutters of the shops – any flat service really:

Valencia is bursting with talented urban artists, whose paintings are so good they almost look like photographs or computer graphics:

We also spotted pieces a la Banksy, in the form of stencil sketches:

How about this spot-on Lisa Simpson piece – listen to Lisa and stop eating meat!

Click through our complete Valencia Street Art album for more incredible works of art:

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Are you a fan of street art? What’s your favorite city for street art?

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8 Responses to “Street Art in Valencia, Spain”

Brad

29. Aug, 2011

Wow, that stuff is gorgeous!

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- Dani
  
  01. Sep, 2011
  
  Thanks Brad! We found that in Canada, Montreal was a great city for street art, not too far from you
  
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Erin

29. Aug, 2011

Wow, beautiful. We really have to get to Valencia, I’ve heard so many good things. San Francisco is probably still our favourite city for street art.

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- Dani
  
  01. Sep, 2011
  
  Thanks Erin! I agree with San Francisco – probably the best street art we’ve seen anywhere so far!
  
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Don

30. Aug, 2011

I love street art! Banksy’s stuff is really cool – have you seen the movie “Exit Through the Gift Shop”? Apparently, it’s a prank, but gives a good glimpse of Banky’s and Shepard Fairey’s work.

I’d love to visit Valencia, but of the places I have been, I’d have to say the Berlin Wall is the coolest set of street art – now, a lot of the work is legally sponsored, so I hope that counts.
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- Dani
  
  01. Sep, 2011
  
  We haven’t seen the movie yet but we desperately want to!! We are huge Banksy fans and when we lived in London, we would always run to see his newest pieces before the council would paint them over. Shepard Fairey is also fantastic. I can’t wait to go back to Berlin to check out some street art there – the East Side Gallery looks amazing and I can’t believe I haven’t been there yet, being from Germany
  
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For 91 Days Travel Blog

31. Aug, 2011

Tons of new street art. We haven’t wondered around Carmen yet much. But eager to see the new art for ourselves. Great work!
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- Dani
  
  01. Sep, 2011
  
  Thanks guys! I guess many of the pieces that we saw aren’t there anymore now, replaced by new graffiti Enjoy being ‘home’ for a while, it must be good after such a long time in South America!!
  
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