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Beautiful Murals in Bangalore City

Beautiful Murals in Bangalore City

The streets of Bangalore in India are covered with colourful murals. In 2009, Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) – the Greater Bangalore Municipal Body – embarked on the idea of painting the city walls with colourful motifs and designs

Beautiful Murals in Bangalore City

Scenes from mythology, animals, monuments and sporting heroes are just a few of the themes of the huge paintings on the city’s walls

Beautiful Murals in Bangalore City

BBMP came up with the idea of the murals to beautify the city and to stop people defacing properties with graffiti or posters

Beautiful Murals in Bangalore City

The scheme also provides employment for local artists – more than 100 painters from Bangalore are involved in the scheme

Beautiful Murals in Bangalore City

Authorities say they plan to extend the scheme to cover virtually every city wall

Beautiful Murals in Bangalore City

Cricketers Sourav Ganguly and Sachin Tendulkar

Beautiful Murals in Bangalore City

A painting of Sachin Tendulkar on the boundary wall of a sports ground

Beautiful Murals in Bangalore City

A painting of Rio’s Christ the Redeemer statue

Beautiful Murals in Bangalore City

A mural of the Taj Mahal

Beautiful Murals in Bangalore City

An elephant on roller skates

Beautiful Murals in Bangalore City

A mural depicting a child holding a swan in the palm of his hand

Beautiful Murals in Bangalore City

An auto rickshaw driver passes a mural depicting a tiger

Beautiful Murals in Bangalore City

Royal Elephant

Beautiful Murals in Bangalore City

Royals

Beautiful Murals in Bangalore City

Men walk by murals of Mughal architecture

Beautiful Murals in Bangalore City

A man walks by murals depicting deer

Beautiful Murals in Bangalore City

Ajanta type mural

Beautiful Murals in Bangalore City

19th century typical scene

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