Seville Street Art 2

Some more weird and wonderful street art, stumbled upon near La Plaza de Armas bus station. Its clear that this area near the river is home to the street culture of Seville, not only in terms of its decoration, but also as home of the skate parks by the river - frequented at all hours of day and night.

Street art of the artistic process (of the more conventional brush kind). Trying to show that, although unconventional, spray art is just as worthy.

The one above is one of my favourites, Rather politically committed don't you think? Such a shame a rookie decided to make his mark on top of the central figure.

Whoever this guy is, it looks like he doesn't want to be messed with. 

Before coming to Seville, I didn't think graffiti art was my thing, but the more I find, the more I like it. 

Next stop, a street art tour of Berlin? 

Seville Street Art

Street art never ceases to amaze me. For someone who manages to draw a stick man disproportionately with a pen, it literally blows my mind to think these artists,who have had one shot to get it right, manage to create such masterpieces with a spray can. Unlike your standard graffiti of tags and obscenities, the term street art implies actual artistic merit. Although it's technically still vandalism, I can't help but marvel at how beautiful some pieces are. 

These colourful examples are what grace the walls of the bus station at the Plaza de Armas, Seville.

I love that the famous symbol of the city, the orange, has made an appearance.

Street art can be seen all over Seville and even creeps its way up the hill in to Camas, the town en route to the local villages like Valencina where I live. 

As time goes on, I hope to capture more street art scenes like these...I guess I'll have to spend some time wandering to scouting some out!

What do you think of street art? a good way to use otherwise blank space or an eye sore?

Exploring...

I find myself thinking back 3 years to when I was living in Majorca working as a holiday advisor.

My wonderful team.

It was a pretty full on job and the very little time I had off, I spent lazing around - sleeping in, swimming in the cove by my hotel, round the pool.

My little slice of the island, Camp de Mar, Southern Majorca

Though I encouraged the customers to get out and about and see the island, outside of my training period of freebie trips I did so very little myself. In my team of five, two of my colleagues were lucky enough to have a day off together. They were always off doing something and their day of exploring was dubbed Tourist Tuesday.

Living just a stones throw away from a beautiful city like Seville, I have vowed not to make the same mistake twice...and so Seville Saturday is born!

Seville Cathedral/Giralda

With such a jam packed timetable during the week, I also have very little time to blog so my Seville Saturday antics will be available in segments for your reading pleasure throughout the following week.

This week you can look forward to:

• Una vuelta: Citysightseeing Sevilla
• La Plaza de Toros: The Bull Ring
• Seville Street Art