Picoas Street Art Lisbon

Art attack!

Nuno from Lisbon

"Lisbon was sleeping while some of the new urban artists and graffiti artists were painting and drawing over vacant buildings in town..."

Lisbon was sleeping while some of the new urban artists and graffiti artists were painting and drawing over vacant buildings in town. The Crono project in Avenida Fontes Pereira de Melo is hard to overlook. Even when travelling from the airport to the city center you'll pass an entire block adorned with great street art murals from major names. You won't miss it!

Here you have one of the best works of Blu SAM3 (an Italian and Spanish duo) and Gémeos (Brazilian twin brothers). The intervention was set in separated buildings in one of the main avenues of Lisbon, and it was a collaboration between these artists for the Crono Festival, back in 2011. These abandoned buildings are blank canvas for the artists and they are bringing color to Lisbon. Lisbon has many vacant buildings with bricked-up windows and trees that are growing inside, hopefully they are either restored or transformed into open art displays.

Aside from the scale of the artwork, the view from a distance is amazing. Check the graffiti from the other side of the avenue and admire the old fat guy drinking all the natural resources from our planet in a corporate street art attack. Don't forget to explore the quarter for more hidden street art in the electrical boxes and the recycled glass urban containers. Have fun and find out for yourself why Lisbon is now a top destination for street art fans!

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Lisbon Spotter Nuno

About me My name’s Nuno and I was born and raised in Lisbon. I studied Tourism and worked for the Estoril Coast Tourism Board for 5 long years. Soon I started travelling a lot, learning different languages - from Russian to Mandarin - and getting to know different countries and cultures. You can tell I fought on both sides of the war. Now I write for several blogs and I'm a tour guide at Get Lost Go Local and We Hate Tourism Tours. I like driving my noisy old Renault 4l with her tired engine with thousand kilometers in the narrow streets of Lisbon. I'm also a mu...

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Oct 18, 2025

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