Life of a small Mexican town sparkle with new bright colors in the literal sense of the word: a group of young street artists Germen Crew painted in the colors of the rainbow facades 209 homes in the suburbs Palmitas Mexican city Pachuca@

total area of painted facades reaches more than 20 thousand square meters. The creation of the murals took two and a half months. Design author street artist Mibe working in Mexico city. By the way, from the Mexican capital to Palmitate can be reached in just half case@

the Idea of this universal graffiti, called "El Mural Macro Barrio de Palmitas", in that the people living in these houses (which is more than 450 families, 2000), become more open and sociable to decreased crime. A group of artists Germen Crew wants "to use culture as a tool for changing the social fabric and strengthening the sense of identity".

This urban improvement project (by the way, funded by the state) can make the Mexican suburbs real tourist attraction. A similar scenario was already once played in the Spanish town of Júzcar, where all facades within the advertising campaigns Sony were painted with blue paint. In the next six months the town was visited by 80 thousand tourists and local residents voted to campaign to leave the blue facades cvet@

Material was prepared by Maria Onuchin, AI

Sources: artnet.com, artinvestment.ru