Monday Murals - Girl with camellias

I love murals and street art. If you like murals or have a mural you'd like to post, this meme is for you.  Just follow the Linky steps below.  Once you start looking you will find murals everywhere.  The "Monday Mural" meme goes live on Monday at 12,01AM, Perth,Western Australian time. Be sure to link back to this blog and visit your fellow posters. Looking forward to your mural finds this week.

Thanks Sami 

And it's now time for the murals from my visit to Portugal in March 2025.

The murals today are from Viseu, a town in the center of Portugal, just half an hour drive from where we used to live before we moved to Australia. It's actually among my favourite towns in Portugal, the other one being Aveiro.

Painted by Ricardo Romero, for "Tons da Primavera" (Spring colours) in July 2021. It's a reinterpretation of the artwork "Girl with camellias" painted in 1912, by local artist José de Almeida e Silva (1864-1945).

It can be found in the center of the town in an area called "Rossio".

Original painted from 1912 "Girl with camellias"

Here you can see the mural in the distance with a wall with azulejos (tiles) in the foreground, by Joaquim Francisco Lopes (1886-1956) which was inaugurated in 1931. This wall is an iconic tourist attraction and has been classified as a "Monument of Municipal interest". 

Painted by João Samina, also known as Samina, this mural was painted in 2018 for the "Tons da Primavera" (Spring Tones), and features a portrait of the writer Aquilino Ribeiro (1885-1963), who was born in the area. Can be found at Travessa das Escadinhas da Se, just off the historical street, Rua Direita (Straight street, which is not straight at all!).

"Situs Inversus - Coração Apertado" (Situs inversus - tight chest), part of the 

4th edition of the Jardins Efémeros festival in 2014, and was created by Liliana Rodrigues, with the collaboration of João Bastos, André Gavino, André Grilo and Rúben Rocha.

Can be found on a lateral wall at Nr. 43 Rua Alexandre Herculano, one of the city's most important arteries.

** "Situs inversus" -  is a rare congenital condition where the organs of the thorax and abdomen are positioned in a mirror-image orientation compared to where they would normally be found. It is a heart that appears on a lateral wall."

This looks like a Banksy style mural, also from Viseu. Not sure of the artist, just thought it would go well with the heart mural above.