Beautiful murals in London, Singapore, and other cities around the world

Colours on wood in Calgary. And lots of cats.

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Murals with a background of skyscrapers in Singapore's Haji Lane neighbourhood.

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A saxophone illuminates a London wall in Dalston, a neighbourhood open to modernity.

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Inspiration from wildlife from other latitudes and colourful flora for a stunning mural in the Canadian town of Calgary.

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"I am not a threat" cries this mural on a wall in Minneapolis, remembering several victims of racist violence in the United States.

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Retro is the charm of this mural welcoming people to the city of Arlington, Georgia.

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Frida Kahlo's face in a corner of Malaga, accompanied by a phrase that defines this great Mexican artist: "Why would I want feet if I have wings to fly."

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One of the most beautiful neighbourhoods in Buenos Aires, full of murals like the one in the picture: pure colour and pop art.

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Fierce fish on a Norwegian wall, in the city of Oslo, against the clouded sky.

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At 1651 West North Avenue in Chicago, a mural-like journey back to a time when the world was captured by old analogue cameras.

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Any street, like this one in Melbourne, can be illuminated by a mural.

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Beautiful work in the city of Dubuque, Iowa, playing with the windows of a building.

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Another good example of London street art. In the neighbourhood of Dalston.

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With a distant air of Picasso, this wall in Bucharest, Romania, is illuminated.

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Street art in India. Specifically in the Lodhi district of New Delhi.

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A snapshot of New York in the World Trade Center space.

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How street art can contribute to beautifying the art of the past. In the Slovenian capital: Bratislava.

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The Berlin Wall was a perfect canvas in stone for all kinds of graffiti. After it was torn down, street art remained on Berlin's walls. See this great example.

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Havana is a beautifully decadent city where there are also murals of great interest. There are the old and classic ones of ideological inspiration promoted by the authorities and those that the new generations contribute.

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Murals flourish everywhere in Greece's cities, and a good example is this street illustration of a bird girl.

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At Ataulfo street (Carrer d'Ataülf) in Barcelona you can find this mural whose technique resembles that of collage art.

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A creation displaying the climate and style of the local roots. Pure Miami.

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The very recognisable face of one of the most important scientists of the 20th century, Stephen Hawking, on a wall in the British town of Bristol.

A corner of the Bulgarian capital is illuminated by this mural, which veers between kitsch excess and an air of modernity.

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A wall paying tribute to the iconic figure of the nurse, in the Mexican town of Puerto Vallarta.

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The universal language of murals expressed somewhere in Lithuania.

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A Kiev street with the primordial Spiderman photographing the world upside down.

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The mixture of urban art and relics, together with nature itself in the form of flora, moss and traces of life, can form a beautiful picture. Such is the case with this Parisian image.

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In Perth, Australia, one finds this street painting that lies between a comic and a fascinating children's tale.

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The beauty of a big cat reinterpreted on a street somewhere in the Schleswig-Holstein region of Germany.

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On the island of Mallorca, this boarded-up window has become the frame for a female-inspired mural.

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Painting new horizons on city walls is a universal art: see this mural in the Bab Doukkala neighbourhood of Marrakech, Morocco.

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Frida Kahlo, the Latina icon featured in this Los Angeles mural, colours a city passageway.

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An unsettling mural in an urban location that makes it all the more interesting.

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A mural inspired by the iconic Bruce Lee on a street in the Sai Ying Pun area of Hong Kong.

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Tribute to Manchester City player Stephanie Houghton, a soccer star.

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Belgium is the birthplace of famous comic authors (Hergé, the creator of TinTin, is among the most prominent). A mural capturing this facet of the city could not be missing.

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Another European city that takes care of its murals is Amsterdam. Here is a good example.

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A spectacular artistic exploration of flowers.

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In the southern coastal town of Bournemouth, this mural was made with a canine motif. Hyperrealism and tenderness.

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In the municipality of Jericoacoara, a tourist destination with beautiful beaches, you can find this mural.

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A beautiful visual play in Zagreb, capital of Croatia.

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It is not only the capital of Lisbon that boasts beautiful murals in Portugal. This corner in the city of Porto is also impressive.

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At the mouth of the Douro River, Porto is a city with a certain decadent air and, at the same time, the beauty of what blends modernity and ancient elements.

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Teufelsberg is a former Berlin rubbish dump that was later used as an air traffic control centre until the facility was abandoned in 1999. It has now become a kind of canvas for street art murals.

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A mural in Barcelona is paying tribute to local writer Mercé Rodoreda.

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Fabulous murals on Place Igor Stravinsky in Paris, within walking distance of the famous Pompidou Art Centre.

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Simply spectacular. In the British town of Bristol.

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Robert Allen Zimmerman, better known as Bob Dylan, was born in Minneapolis in 1941. He got his pictorial tribute in the form of a mural in that city.

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A Mexican example of modern muralism in the country of Diego Rivera, a perfect piece of street art.

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