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Only upon entering Ciutat Badia, in the Vallès Occidental, you find this monumental, majestic and very well-crafted graffiti on a wall of an industrial warehouse. I have portrayed it for La Vanguardia’s Readers’ Photos, but it is not the only example of a gigantic mural that catches our attention in this town.
The practice of muralism, understood as a mural that is commissioned by an artist to decorate a façade or wall in the city, is increasingly widespread in cities (mural festivals are even organized).
In parallel, graffiti is characterized by its free, satirical and critical style, where the artist reflects his own thoughts about society, although it is not always well seen.
In Ciutat Badia we find several examples, such as this fantastic large mural in the sports pavilion that I have also photographed.
Ciutat Badia, Badia and Badia del Vallès are the three names by which this town has been known during its first 27 years of history.
Ciutat Badia was born as a project in the 1960s in Madrid, when the National Housing Institute was commissioned to build some 12,000 social housing units in the province of Barcelona, ??of which only 5,372 were finally built. For construction, 887,441.82 square meters were expropriated from the municipalities of Sabadell, Cerdanyola del Vallès and Barberà del Vallès.
Ciutat Badia is today a municipality with its own personality, where we can also appreciate how the urban art of graffiti is expressed with its style.
