George Town street art gets ‘Lonely Planet’ listing

Capital attraction: Tourists taking photographs of Volchkova’s giant mural on the side of a building at the corner of Lebuh Klang in George Town. — GARY CHEN/The Star

PETALING JAYA: George Town has joined other famous street art capitals of the world to make it into the Lonely Planet book Street Art.

The quaint street murals and colourful walls in the inner city of George Town, are bringing attention to this versatile city as one of the street art capitals of the world, alongside hotspots like New York, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Paris, Melbourne and San Francisco.