Kastryčnickaja Minsk
Street art melting pot
Katia from Minsk
The good thing about ageing is that you get to see how the city changes. Kastryčnickaja Street in Minsk has long been associated with student residences and its yeast factory. Well, the yeast smell is still there, but the ambiance is totally different.
The 100-year old industrial buildings and the street itself are now being reanimated with urban art (street installations and graffiti, including one of the biggest murals in the world) by Belarusian and Brasilian street artists within Vulica Brasil festivals, so today Kastryčnickaja looks like one big open-air gallery.
Kastryčnickaja Street, often compared to Berlin and New York, combines very different and often incompatible things: a bunch of bars and cafes, factories, yoga studios, ... You can even spot an old Ikarus bus used as a Georgian street food café. And the day you're certain you know every bit of it, a tramway stop pops up to pay tribute to tram line #2 which was closed in 2015.
No need to check the city events calendar in advance, let Kastryčnickaja surprise you!
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