treskillard

Greetings to all you in Spain.
I've been directed to this forum from the French one.
I was in the south of the Aude in France when I saw this graffiti which says, "Rosbifs Go Home" (image below).

I was asking if anyone had seen anything similar around other areas of France and my question (so far) has come up with a blank.

Someone helpfully suggested, and I quote:
"You ought to ask in Spain then ...... its the Graffiti capital of Europe
Some is very artistic, some is just a mess."

So you inhabitants of Graffiti Central, have you seen similar things? Does anyone have any images as examples they can post?

My interest in this is because I'm editing a book about graffiti at the moment. The research I have done has been on tree carving! We did a study of tree carving dating back to the 1860s on the beech trees around Wayland Smithy in Oxfordshire. You can tell an interesting social history from graffiti that you don't get from other sources. I lived 10 years in France, 2 years in Greece and 2 years in Italy, my father lives in Spain along with most of his side of the familiy, my mother was Welsh and looked understanding when cottages got burned in the 1970s and I'm interested in how people are reacting to all the British that are moving abroad.

Thanks
Treskillard

lynnxa

I'm ashamed to say that most of the (very little) graffiti around here is written in english by english kids

rugbymatt

but does it say Spanish Get Out?

glad 2 b back

I saw a lot, an awful lot of graffiti in Malaga, all around malaga and never seen any written in English.

Lochy

Surely if written by English kids, it would say "Spanish get out, please."

lynnxa

along those lines


a teacher at school asked me to translate what some english kids had spray painted by the school gate

'Arenal is Ours'
(Arenal is the name of the school)

lynnxa

PMSL

Lochy

What's PMSL.

I aint finished on the other one yet, couldn't resist that though!!!

lynnxa

maybe a bit rude

pi$$ed myself laughing

treskillard

HO HO. Spanish forum is a bit busier than the French one! Lively even. The graffiti I posted is written it seems by some sort of separatist Occitan movement (one person or more is anyones guess. It is also on a road that leads towards an area with alot of British Alternative Settlers (Hippies?) as well as being near the Ryanair shockwaves.

Lochy

Not much anti British graffitti here, actually not much graffitti at all, but you do get some anti-spanish and anti-french graffitti. They often plaster the local government/police buildings with yellow and red paint. They throw it at the spanish flags that are flying outside.

lynnxa

just thought of some graffiti we do get

all the road signs have Javea/Xabia, or Xabia/Javea on them - the Xabia being the Valenciano spelling

many of them have the Javea spray painted out by a sort of 'seperatist' group around here

Lochy

We get a lot of that here. Makes it doubly confusing that the names of the towns often bare little relation to each other in Basque - San Sebastian is Donostia and Vitoria is Gasteiz for example.

Rosemary

Most of the graffiti that we have seen has been political and anti nazi.

Rosemary

mikelincs

Most graffiti round here is political, and usually anti corruption, anti certain political parties, anti the police. It is ALL in Spanish, I've NEVER seen any anti British or ati English graffiti. None of the graffiti round here is very artistic in any case.