There is hardly anything that effectively stops the proliferation of Painted in Albayzín. The problem has been enchanted. Neither the action of cleaning services nor the awareness work carried out by the guides nor the police action deter up the uncivic young people who stain some points of the neighborhood with phrases and dedications written with a marker.
Surveillance to these behaviors is a work that agents of order and tourist guides themselves share. The former do it by obligation. The second, out of respect for the neighborhood and love for their work. From the Association Taqa, For example, your guides associated with notifying from the beginning of the damage made by those graffiti when they host the visit of a group of students. “Some kids have to take the marker practically hand in hand,” says Alain González, president of Taqa Granada. “We tell you that you have to respect the neighbors and reflect, and they don’t care,” he says almost resigned.
But they will continue in the effort. In fact, Taqa plans to propose next week to the City of Granada an awareness campaign in schools. The idea is that your staff goes to the centers to Teach pedagogical talks Let students ask the students the question of whether they would commit in their own houses vandalism like these.
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In it New contract of services of Viaria Public Cleaning There is a clause that stipulates special measures for the elimination of graffiti. One of them is the creation of two specific rapid action brigades. “This will allow us, much more efficiently, to respond to the needs of cleaning,” defends the mayor of the city, Marifrán Carazo. Although the benefit is about to award, the City Council has already shown its preference for the proposal presented by FCC Environment SA.
The bureaucracy delays possible solutions to the graffiti
However, the local administration itself has the hands tied by the limits of its own powers. At least they indicate it to neighborhood associations. For example, in facades of private properties it cannot act. To do so in Cultural Interest (BIC) needs the mandatory permission of the Delegation of Culture. And there we lose ourselves in the times of bureaucracy. “We have been trying for the City Council and Culture for a long time to carry out a technical protocol that allane the way of acting against the graffiti,” explains Pepe Bigorra, member of the Board of Directors of the Board of Directors of the Albaicin Neighbors Association. Just two weeks ago they moved it to the councilor of the neighborhood, Francis Almohalla, and the Delegate of Culture, David Rodríguez.
In conversation with Granadadigital, Bigorra has advanced the intention of requesting the installation of posters that warn visitors of the heritage value of the streets of the neighborhood and to paint in them is punishable. “I am ashamed to be Granada when I go to Córdoba, to Toledo, to Seville or Ronda, which are also heritage cities, and they do not have this problem. I have faced tourists who took pictures of the graffiti as something to remember and have come to tell me that it is a new form of artistic expression. It is what there is,” he says.
It is logical that the situation worries the neighbors of the neighborhood a lot. The wall of the carelessness in which the beginning of the Up of the Cuesta de San Gregorio, One of the busiest, weapon of reasons. Although in other alleys it shows that the walls have recently been repainted to cover the writings, in San Gregorio messages dated on February 1 are read. Three months ago, as little, they are there.
The neighborhood fed up
Residents have expressed their fed up in different ways: by way of dialogue with the Consistory or with their own initiatives. From the collective Albayzín Habitable They were already organized at the end of last year to distribute pages with Spanish and English messages against this poetic pseudo vandalism. “This neighborhood is not an amusement park and this wall is not a book of visits,” said any.
Something more than a dozen people, mostly young, were arrested throughout 2024 for the realization of graffiti. Only for attacks against the Zenete cistern were arrested by the Local Police.
The PSOE of Granada has used this situation to oppose the local government team. His councilor Juanjo Ibáñez requested more attention for one of the more recognizable symbols of Granada. “Albayzín is being the victim of unprecedented institutional abandonment,” he said.
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