Beja: bejenses artists paint boxes Distribution EDP with motifs and colors of tiles.
Eight artists of the Collective Artists of Beja (CAB) They painted during yesterday morning, Tiles with the explanatory Beja, sixty transformer boxes of EDP Distribution, located in the historic city center.
Under BEJA + Artistic design the responsibility of the Association for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Beja region (AdpBEJA), and with the support of EDP Distribution, artists created the molds card, made from tile motifs of several iconic buildings of the old Pax-Julia.
Florival Baioa, President of AdpBEJA, He justified this initiative with the fact that "bad image boxes convey the city's own company", particularly in the prime area of the metropolis.
The idea is also to "promote the tiles of Beja and its vast heritage", adding Florival Baiôa, the reasons are based on "the five hundred years of tile, with particular emphasis on the fifteenth, XVI e XVII”, concluded.
In some arteries, traders joined the initiative by painting the walls of establishments, rural grounds in the region, that fit with the designs and colors of the tiles (photo Rua Dr. Afonso Costa, Old Street Shopping).
The AdpBEJA has two other painting projects to develop over the coming months: decorate MOLOK's trash and pedestrian crossings.
"In both cases, we want to make them more attractive. the crosswalks, Moreover we intend to cause more attention to drivers and pedestrians and reduce the scourge of roadkill ", Florival ended Baio.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
