Every wall here has a name on it, and someone who said yes to it. Meet the artists, the stories and the walls you will walk past with us.
In 2015 Tito Bolivar saw a boy painted on a wall in Bogotá, playing a trumpet under the words Arte para la vida. He came home to San Nicolas, a town most visitors drove past, and started inviting artists: Bordalo II, Bond Truluv and, in the end, people from eleven countries. He asked the neighbours for their walls. By 2019 Forbes was calling San Nicolas the street art capital of the Caribbean.
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.
On the wall of the island’s oldest flower shop, for Bertha who ran it for 35 years. An elderly woman crowned with flowers faces a young man with a beard of them.
The donkeys that carried goods and families long before cars. Painted with warmth, as a reminder of what the island was built on.
A postcard you can stand inside. Updated in 2025 with the island’s flora and fauna framing the message.
A grandmother, painted during the 2025 Mural Festival. Ask your guide for the story of the woman behind it.
From the very first Aruba Art Fair in 2016, when a handful of neighbours first said yes to a painted wall.
A green sea turtle swimming across the wall. Four species of sea turtle nest on Aruba’s beaches.
Use our self-guided map and go at your own pace. Most walls are a few blocks from the main street.
Come in September and watch the newest walls go up. More ideas: things to do in San Nicolas.