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Monday, 14 July 2025

Monday Murals - School murals in Viseu

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 

Mural painted in August 2020 by Jorge Charrua, for the CubomagicoViseu program (MagiccubeViseu). It was inspired by a reflection on the importance of personal space as an extension of our personal expression and identity. It is a crucial place in human development, where we can get to know ourselves, experiment and fail. 

It can be seen at Basic School 1 CEB of Ribeira, at Largo Major Monteiro Leite 90, in Viseu.





Another mural at the same school was painted by Pedro Podre, and portrays Almeida Moreira, a former military Captain, collector, professor, artist, and an important figure in Viseu in his time.
He was the founder and first director of the National Museum Grão Vasco, was a Municipal councillor. As administrator of the Tourism Committee, he was responsible for promoting Viseu in the cinema, public art, and photography.
The panel of blue tiles that could be seen in one of my previous post was commissioned by Captain Moreira to beautify the Rossio curve, now one of Viseu's iconic features.
He was born in 1873 and died in 1939.





      Tiled wall, commissioned by Captain Moreira to beautify the Rossio curve.

26 comments:

  1. ...Sami, my hat's off to you for sharing these fabulous murals. Thanks for hosting and I wish you a wonderful new week.

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  2. Confident and humane art. Very different from the struggles here in America right now. Thank you for hosting us in this beautiful spot of sanity, Sami

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    1. Thank you Cloudia. I do feel sorry and sad about what is going on in the States.

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  3. I enjoy seeing the portrait murals and being introduced to interesting people. these are two good ones.

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  4. I find portrait murals very interesting. They add to the community

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  5. Great to see some history on the walls. And that's a tremendous tiled wall

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  6. I think the first mural is very thoughtful. Who could not love a beautifully tiled wall.

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    1. Thanks Andrew. Yes, that tiled wall is quite beautiful.

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  7. Há muito a pedir uma visita a amigos que ali vivem.
    Boa semana

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    1. Uma cidade bonita. Obrigada Pedro, boa semana.

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  8. Experiment and allowed to learn from failures is a very good option. And ohhhh, the cat!
    All those hats remind me of when I was in Moon & Six Pence and lost my "red hat" and they though I lost my child (redhead). Drama, LOL
    "Which size?" I luckily didn´t say "Kid´s size" but "my size"...

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    1. The cat in the mural adds to the softness of the mural. Great story with the red hat/red head :) Thanks for participating in Monday Murals Iris.

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  9. Great murals to see again. Thanks for it.

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  10. You found two fine murals, but too bad they both have fences in front of them. You did get some photos without the fences. Good for you.

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    1. They were inside the school grounds. It was the weekend so the gates were closed. Thanks TFG.

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  11. Show me a mural with a cat and I'm all in!

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