Landmark
Werregarenstraat
Narrow car-free alley where every wall is layered in ever-changing graffiti and spray-can art.
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Location
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About this audio guide
This guide to Werregarenstraat in Ghent, the narrow lane everyone calls Graffiti Street, is about the people who have worked its walls. It reaches back to the alley's rougher trades and to the mid-nineties, when spray-can painters and the city police were still playing cat and mouse. You'll meet an American painter, a socialist mayor and the local crews who knocked on doors. Best heard standing midway down the alley, surrounded by fresh paint.
This audio guide was created using AI.