Amman — A City of Street Art and Culture

<p>Last week, while walking through the streets of Amman, Jordan, I looked up to take a picture of the scenary around me, and behold, a fantastic street art was looking down at me.</p> <p>Amman, otherwise known as the white city, is the world&#39;s oldest and most consistently inhabited city, initially founded in 7250 BC. It is called the white city because its houses are made from limestone &mdash; By law, all residential facades must be covered in limestone in Amman.</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:700/1*3l-QvuQozql27hGvJ4hKXg.jpeg" style="height:801px; width:700px" /></p> <p>Photo taken by the author</p> <p>nowadays, Amman&#39;s old buildings and districts are covered with street art representing the city&#39;s culture, diversity, and youth. The entire town is like a vast museum plastered with art on every corner.</p> <p>It hasn&#39;t always been like this. Amman&#39;s walls used to be covered with spray-painted quotes, cheers for sports teams, and the most famous sentence of them all, &quot;To fence your farms,&quot; followed by a random phone number. Sometimes they&#39;ll spray paint to advertise for a nearby business.</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:700/0*fMQQZzBDGm-9obFJ.jpg" style="height:500px; width:700px" /></p> <p>Photo taken by<a href="https://www.arab48.com/%D9%81%D8%B3%D8%AD%D8%A9/%D8%A8%D8%B5%D8%B1/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%84/2019/07/29/%D9%83%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%8A%D8%B7%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">&nbsp;Hamza Abu Ayyash</a></p> <p>Graffiti used to be considered an act of vandalism around the city. Around 2017&ndash;2018, graffiti artists started painting the old city&#39;s pale, boring gray walls. Some old buildings lost their limestone facade, and the grey concrete was showing underneath them.</p> <p><a href="https://waleedao.medium.com/amman-a-city-of-street-art-and-culture-9768e51b8a5b"><strong>Read More</strong></a></p>
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