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Murals and beach
Paint your own
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No account needed · pay by card or at the gallery · free cancelling until 24 hours before
Our story
San Nicolas through its walls
Behind every mural here there is a story, and we are the people who were in the room when it started. San Nicolas was built around a refinery. When the work went, the people went, and the shutters stayed down. In 2016 it was a town most visitors drove past.
Tito Bolivar came home from Bogotá in 2015 having seen a boy painted on a wall playing a trumpet, under the words Art for Life. He started inviting artists — Bordalo II, Bond Truluv, and in the end people from eleven countries — and asked the neighbours for their walls. By 2019 Forbes was calling San Nicolas the street art capital of the Caribbean.
We do not just show you murals. We share the people, the arguments, and what a town looks like when it decides to paint itself back into the room.
How to find us
Every tour meets at the ArtisA gallery, B v/d Veen Zeppenfeldstraat 6, in the middle of San Nicolas. Walk in, have a look around, and your guide will find you.
Arte para la vida. The wall in Bogotá that started it, 2015.
San Nicolas, 2025 — a wall still going up.
Life on the walls
Every mural has a name on it
Fio Silva & Sake Ink · Argentina & Spain
Lo de aquí
A girl and a boy from Aruba on one side, a radiant flower and two hummingbirds on the other. Blue for the sea, orange for the sunsets.
Marcus, Gomad & Debbie · Netherlands
Roots in Bloom
On the wall of the island’s oldest flower shop, for Bertha who ran it 35 years. An elderly woman crowned with flowers faces a young man with a beard of them.
Tristan Farro · Aruba
Buriconan di Aruba
The donkeys that carried goods and families long before cars. Painted with warmth, as a reminder of what the island was built on.
Ice One · Aruba
Greetings from Aruba V2.0
A postcard you can stand inside. Updated in 2025 with the island’s flora and fauna framing the message.
Meet the team
The people who put them there
Most street art tours are run by fans of the scene. Ours are run by the organisers of the Aruba Art Fair — the ones who invited the artists, raised the money and knocked on the doors.
Founder · Aruba Art Fair
Tito Bolivar
Came home from Bogotá in 2015 having seen a boy painted on a wall playing a trumpet, under the words Art for Life. He invited the first artists to San Nicolas, and he still walks the route.
Italian tour guide · San Nicolas
Nico Caputo
Came to Aruba as a European Solidarity Corps volunteer and fell for the DNA of what ArtisA is building. He stayed, and now guides the route in Italian — though he is not only a guide. He has a hand in most of what gets built here.
Why walk with us
The ones who were there
Walking since the first wall
2016
We did not arrive after the murals. We were there when the first artists were invited and the first neighbour said yes.
Countries the artists came from
11
Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Greece and more. Your guide can tell you who, and what they asked for.
Tripadvisor · 272 reviews
4.9
Certificate of Excellence, and a Forbes write-up in 2019 naming San Nicolas the street art capital of the Caribbean.
★★★★★
“Our guide knew the artists personally. That changed the whole thing from looking at paintings to hearing a town talk about itself.”
Karen P. · Tripadvisor
★★★★★
“Great value for money and would highly recommend.”
Fredster10 · Tripadvisor · October 2026
★★★★★
“Well worth your time and money to get the full impact”
Lee L · Tripadvisor · November 2023
★★★★★
“…gave us a better understanding of the art and the artists behind them”
dewjr · Tripadvisor · October 2023
Free cancelling until 24 hours before the tour.
How the tour works
Simple · real · unforgettable
01
Book your spot
Pick a tour and a time online. Most days have a morning and an afternoon walk, and places go fast in season.
02
Meet at the gallery
Come to ArtisA, B v/d Veen Zeppenfeldstraat 6. Have a look around while the group gathers. On the ride tours we collect you 45 minutes earlier.
03
Walk the walls
Two hours on foot through San Nicolas, with the stories behind each wall and as many photo stops as you want.
What to bring
A few things for the walk
Sun and water
Aruba is hot and the route is open. A hat, sunscreen and a bottle of water make the difference. We bring water too.
Shoes you can walk in
Two hours on pavements and kerbs. Nothing difficult, but not the day for new sandals.
A charged phone
You will take more photos than you expect. Tag the artist when you post — their name is on every wall we show you.
Bon bini
Come and see what a town can do
Five walks, most days of the week, from $20. Two hours on foot, ages six and up, free cancelling until 24 hours before. Book direct and your money stays with the guides, the artists and the next wall.
Support the work
Keep the walls coming
Every mural in San Nicolas was paid for before it was painted — walls rented, scaffolding hired, artists flown in, paint bought. ArtisA is a foundation, not a brand. What we raise goes back into the next wall, the next workshop, and the young people who learn on them.
A wall
Rent, permits, lift hire and paint for one mural
A workshop
Materials for a group of local young people
A year
Keeping ArtisA gallery and Space21 open and free to walk into