MONDAY MURAL - Love

Hello everyone! 

This mural represents LOVE and says: Where you can't love, don't stay. 
Inspired by Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, it was painted by Ana Mesquita.

This mural is on the lateral wall of a building in Cascais, in a suburb called TOWER.  
This place was constructed in the 60's, for the underprivileged. 
The time has changed the way  people look at the suburb, because in the last four years, two or three young men decided to change a lot of bad things.

They started to change the lateral of each building painting murals, after the buildings were freshly painted.

The people, specially the youth of TORRE,  now have two guides to show what has been done. The visitors pay a small fee (€5), to look around 23 paintings, from almost 18 or 19 painters, which offered their work for free, with the exception of paint. 

For some years the municipality introduced gardens, playing fields and associations who provided courses.

Now five years after the murals started being painted, we can say the residents of the TORRE suburb can feel proud of themselves.   

Five years ago,  you could see rubbish in the streets, people smoking "dagga", drugs, etc. now it's changing day by day, and you can find happy and responsible people, not only young people but also older people. They have an association called "WE ARE TORRE" (SOMOS TORRE in Portuguese) and they are very proud of it. And they should really be.  
All the residents of Cascais are very proud of them too.

On Wednesday last week, I went with my pupils from the university where I teach, to visit BAIRRO DA TORRE, (TOWER SUBURB), and we are very, very grateful with everything that we learned with them. 

If you want to change the WORLD, you should start by painting your door.   

For other murals from across the world please click this link and visit Sami.