Werregaren Street: "Tagger's Paradise"

After checking Will's blog (Made In HK) and more specially the article about the Tags and grafitti, I decided myself to share one urban story from where I live.

Normally tagging on walls is illegal right? But not in Ghent, Belgium, the place where I live! At least not everywhere! Certain areas of the city are "tag-free" meaning that it is allowed to tag anything you want on the walls of a certain place.

It all started some 50 years ago when a kid was busted by the local cops after he totally tagged a public toilet. The Judge of that case then decided that since the public toilet actually looked a lot beter after the work of the young boy, that he had to tag ALL the public toilets as a punishment, and since then the legalisation of "grafitti " and 'tagging" in Ghent started and florished into the street culture that we have today.

So here are some pictures of the "Werregaren Street" a street right in the old centrum of Ghent where everything is tagged, not just walls but doors, windows, garages, just everything. And the amazing thing about this extremelly long street is that the designs and drawings change every week!

Enjoy!