Last Updated on September 6, 2011
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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?
Greg
Friday 2nd of October 2015
Coming back to Escif and Blu, the two impressive murals to see are located on Plaça de Tossal in the heart of El Carmen, the one on the left is from Escif, the one on the right showing Moses is from the hands of the Italian street artist Blu.
Greg
Monday 28th of September 2015
And I forgot to talk about Pichi & Avo, two great Valencian artists. Since 2014 their art is about Greek Mythology.
Greg
Monday 28th of September 2015
Nice memories! For Valencia, I suggest Escif with his stop motion falling car and Blu with his Moses, together on a place (I forgot the name...) my favorites!
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Tuesday 19th of August 2014
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Wednesday 31st of August 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!
Dani
Thursday 1st of September 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!!