Somebody painted this city. Go and meet the walls.
Which Comuna 13 guide actually knows the crews. What a Belfast black cab costs before the driver starts talking. Where a graffiti workshop hands you the cans. Reviews of the street art tours you can book anywhere on earth.
Four walks that explain why people fly for paint.
A hillside in Medellin, a tiled slope in Lisbon, a black cab in Belfast and an afternoon with your own can. What each costs, and what the people who booked it say.
01The hillsideComuna 13 Graffiti Tour, Cable Car & Street FoodEscalators up the barrio, a cable-car leg and murals painted by crews who live under them. The most-booked street art tour anywhere.
02The tiled cityStreet Art TourLisbon paints on hills, on tiles and on abandoned palaces. Three hours covers Graca, Mouraria and the giant pieces above the ring road.
03The black cabMurals Taxi TourShankill and Falls in one taxi, with a driver who grew up between them. The murals are the argument, not the backdrop.
04Cans in handBrooklyn Graffiti Workshop with Local ArtistA legal wall in Brooklyn, a crate of cans and an hour with a writer who tells you why your fill looks wrong.
On foot, on two wheels, in a cab or with a can in your hand.
The same murals read completely differently at walking speed and at bike speed. Four ways to spend the afternoon, and what the cheapest seat in each costs today.
★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · Street Art and Graffiti Guided Walking Tour
On footTwo hours, one district, every stencil pointed out.
On a bikeSix districts instead of one, and the long pieces along the canals.
In a cab or tuk-tukHills, ring roads and peace walls without the walking.
With a canA legal wall, a crate of aerosol and someone who can actually cut a line.
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Six cities that put murals on the tourist map.
A peace wall, a tiled hillside, a warehouse district repainted every December, a stretch of the Berlin Wall still being worked on, and the East End lanes where the pieces change monthly. Pick a city and start with its best-reviewed guide.
The street art tours more people book than any other.
Every wall walk we have reviewed →Eight guides with the review counts to prove it, from a Colombian hillside to a warehouse district in Florida.
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Comuna 13 Graffiti Tour, Cable Car & Street Food
Follow guides such as Natalia, Santiago, Martin, or Melina through Comuna 13 by metro, cable car, bus, and on foot. You’ll learn how murals tell the neighborhood’s story, taste Colombian coffee and an arepa, see a dance show, and finish with a drink above Medellín.
From · $18
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Xochimilco, Coyoacan, Frida Kahlo Museum & Murals Tour
from $89
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Streetart Museum STRAAT Entrance Ticket
from $25
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Murals Taxi Tour
from $51
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Wynwood Graffiti Golf Cart Small-Group Tour
from $45
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Street Art and Graffiti Guided Walking Tour
from $33
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Street Art Tour
from $40
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City Street Art Guided Walking Tour
from $23
Murals are a local argument, and every country paints a different one.
American cities commission theirs and put them on bus routes. British walls carry politics. Mexico hands you a century of muralism and then the crews who answered it. Start where you are already going.
Three places where the paint is the whole reason to come.
Plenty of cities have a mural or two. A hillside reached by outdoor escalators, a warehouse yard that resets every December and a city where the gable ends argue with each other are something else.
Comuna 13
The barrio was the hardest place in the city in 2002, when Operacion Orion went through it. Outdoor escalators were built up the slope in 2011, and the crews painted the walls either side of them. Guides here are usually locals who were children during the raids, which is why the tour is half art history and half testimony, and why it outsells every other street art walk on earth.
- 1Comuna 13 Graffiti Tour, Cable Car & Street Food★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 9,046 reviews
- 2Comuna 13 Tour with Snacks And Your Own Graffiti★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 311 reviews
- 3Comuna 13 and Graffiti Guided Tour with a Local★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 239 reviews
Wynwood
Tony Goldman bought up warehouses in a written-off garment district in 2009 and turned their blank sides into a permanent outdoor gallery. Much of the neighbourhood is repainted around Art Basel each December, so a photograph from last winter is already out of date. Golf carts and buggies do the long blocks; walking tours do the alleys the carts cannot enter.
- 1Wynwood Graffiti Golf Cart Small-Group Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,646 reviews
- 2Wynwood Art District 1-Hour Street Art Tour by Golf Cart★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 492 reviews
- 3Wynwood Art District 1-Hour Wynwood Buggies Street Art Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 289 reviews
Painted politics
Northern Ireland has painted its arguments on gable ends since the 1970s, and the peace-wall gates between Shankill and Falls still shut at night. In Derry the Bogside Artists put the civil-rights years on the houses below Free Derry Corner. Black cabs remain the standard way round both cities because the driver is usually the commentary.
- 1Private Black Taxi Cab Political Murals Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 425 reviews
- 2Political Wall Murals and Peacewall★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 247 reviews
- 32 Hour Private Belfast Taxi Cab Tour of Troubles & Peace walls★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 240 reviews
What an afternoon of murals actually costs.
Every tour on the site sorted by price. The cheapest guided hours cost less than the pint afterwards, and the top of the range buys a driver and a private route.
Small-group walks, tip-based alternative tours and museum entry. The bulk of the catalogue lives here.
Black cabs, golf carts, bike routes across a whole city and workshops that supply the paint.
Private guides, photographers and cars, usually priced for the whole party rather than the seat.
Lisbon hands its abandoned buildings to the painters.
The city runs a street art department, gives crews whole facades on the Avenida and lets the hills do the rest. Half the good pieces are up a slope you would not climb by accident, which is the case for a guide.
Every Lisbon wall walk →
Four things nobody tells you before a street art tour.
Most of this is outdoors, on foot, in whatever weather the city is having. These four are the practical facts that decide whether you enjoy the afternoon.
- 01Comuna 13 Graffiti Tour, Cable Car & Street FoodA hillside, outdoor escalators and a cable-car leg. Half a day mostly in the open, so shoes and shade matter more than anything else.
- 02Brooklyn Graffiti Workshop with Local ArtistYou are handed the cans and pointed at a legal wall. Wear clothes you would not mind ruining, because aerosol carries.
- 03Murals Taxi TourThe cab is the tour. Several operators quote the whole vehicle rather than the seat, which makes it cheap for four and dear for one.
- 04Streetart Museum STRAAT Entrance TicketIndoor paint, timed entry and a roof. The one booking on this site that is immune to weather.
Rain kills a mural walk. It does not kill the paint.
Guides go out in drizzle and the pieces still read, but four hours of it is not what anybody flew in for. Two answers: a hangar full of commissioned walls, or a workshop where the wall is indoors and the cans are supplied.
By city — where to start
The newest walls on the site.
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Your Own Belgrade: Street Art and Hidden Gems Walking Tour
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Xochimilco floating gardens, Coyoacan and UNAM murals
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Wynwood Walls Street Art & Neighborhood Walking Tour
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Vancouver: Street Art & Craft Coffee Walking Tour w/ Tasting
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Vancouver: Street Art & Craft Beer Walking Tour with Tasting
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Zagreb Street Art Private Walking Tour with a Local Artist
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Small-Group Graffiti Tour and Workshop in El Carmen
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Tirana Mural Bike Tour: Street Art, Culture & Photography Stops
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