Tourist attraction
Mural de la Besada
Giant enamel mural of a candid couple's kiss, born from a stolen photo turned tourism icon.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Mural de la Besada in Valencia's Carmen district starts with a stolen photograph: a kiss between two strangers on a London train platform that photographer Alfonso Calza caught in 2012, without ever learning their names. It follows how painter Luis Lonjedo scaled that image onto a grimy Calle de Moret wall, and how Calza filled sixty meters of facade with other candid shots taken in Bremen and Venice. Above the couple's locked mouths, Lonjedo painted a warning: kissing forbidden.
This audio guide was created using AI.