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Lima is certainly one of the most artistic and colourful cities in Peru, the huge graffiti and murals make this city one of the most vibrant and unique in terms of street art in South America, and the Barranco district is its canvas.
Barranco is a small bohemian neighbourhood, where in addition to very large murals and installations, there are also art and photography galleries of famous artists. In 2015 Castañeda Lossio (Lima’s Mayor in that year) ordered to cover all of the graffiti around Baranco with yellow paint like his political colour, over 60 murals are been covered and the local artists have acted with a festival “muraliza el barrio” which takes place every year right since 2015 (this year in September).Peruvian street art is inspired by various themes: spirituality, innocence, dreams and equality.
I was able to see street art only in 2 of the most important Peruvian cities. Lima and Cusco, The graffiti of Lima are very inspired by the freedom of the human being, the dreams of adults and children, while in Cusco it refers to the Andean and Inca traditions.The artists of the Peruvian street art scene are several:
Jade Rivera with his graffiti inspired by children, dreams and traditions (in Lima it is also possible to see his museum which contains many of his art-works, some inspired by his wife)
))Entes more inspired to traditions with an eye also on the African’s culture))
Elliot Tupac typographic muralist with his poetic and colourful writings.
Daniel Cortez (Decertor) his style reflects the Incas and Andean traditions, on his murals you can see the faces of Shamans and Peruvian men, women and children.
If you are in Lima for a few days or weeks you must see Barranco district and if you don’t have time to explore it one of the best tours that you can do is Tailored Tours Peru with the best street Art’s tour in the city.
If you would like to visit Barranco my suggestion is to start from the “ Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Lima (MAC-Lima)” and to go until Jiron Mariscal Jose Antonio de Sucre where you will find the huge tunnel and then through this, you will arrive at “Puente de Los Suspiros” where you can find the Jade Rivera’s Museum and many more. From this way you will arrive at the beach called “Playa Barranco”, I think you cannot miss it because there is a nice view of the Pacific!
