If you’re a passionate street art lover, you’ll feel right at home in São Paulo. This Brazilian metropolis is basically an open art museum, with countless graffiti and murals scattered all around it, and Beco do Batman is home to some of the very best.
Also known as Batman’s Alley, this quirky tourist attraction is safely tucked away inside São Paulo’s Vila Madalena neighborhood. It can be found at the intersection between Rua Gonçalo Afonso and Rua Medeiros de Albuquerque, and it’s now known as a haven for graffiti artists from Brazil.
If you’re scared that Beco do Batman is reminiscent of a scary alley where the beloved superhero lost his parents, you’ll be happy to hear that’s not how it got its name. This street started taking shape during the 80s, with a lone graffiti of the iconic DC Comics superhero.
The rest is history, and many more amazing graphics and murals followed in the decades to come. In the beginning, the local art students started filling the walls with psychedelic and cubist-influenced murals, but Beco do Batman went through many transformations in later years, constantly changing and transforming as new pieces of art covered the old ones, with the permission of the previous artists.