The Street Life Walls
A fight over fairies, on the street where Limassol's graffiti festival began.
Listen to this place’s story in Peplos.
How the story begins
On this street, officials once ordered a painter to erase his fairies from a wall he says had been sprayed with swastikas. It was 2007. A house on Saripolou had a wall that, he says, was sprayed with obscene messages and racist slogans, and a firm called Gifts and Gadgets was organising a graffiti festival with the town council's backing. It asked Achilleas Michaelides, who works as Paparazzi, to decorate it.
The rest is in the app. Peplos plays the full story when you reach the place. You can also listen ahead of time.
Visiting
Junction of Saripolou and Athinon streets, old town, Limassol. Public streets, seen from outside at any time. The festival was held in spring in 2024 and 2025. No report of a 2026 edition was found; check before going.
On the way
Sources
- All About Limassol: A 100% Limassol festival, 23 April 2017
- All About Limassol: Graffiti artists cleaned the walls, 6 April 2017
- Cyprus Mail: Limassol's Street Life festival returns, 10 April 2025
- Cyprus Mail: Street Life festival returns to Limassol, 25 March 2024
- Cyprus Mail: Fairies or swastikas, by Anna Hassapi, 18 November 2007
- Cyprus Mail: The great divide between art and vandalism, 7 June 2015
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