Where is Asilah Street Murals located?

Asilah Street Murals is located in asilah, Morocco.

Asilah Street Murals

Every August since 1978, the Moussem Culturel International d'Asilah transforms the medina into an open-air gallery. Artists from across Africa, the Arab world, and Europe paint the walls of the old city — murals that accumulate year after year, layer over layer. The walls of Asilah are the longest-running public art project in Morocco.

The murals change every year, painted over and replaced during the summer festival. What remains between festivals is a medina where art is part of the fabric — faded works from previous years visible beneath fresh whitewash, commissioned pieces on prominent walls, and the occasional masterpiece that the town decides to preserve.

The tradition began with the 1978 festival and has accumulated decades of work. The artists are international — Moroccan, Japanese, Cuban, European — and the styles range from calligraphic abstraction to figurative painting to pure geometric colour. The medina walls are not a museum; they are a surface that is continuously written on and erased.

The best murals are concentrated along the rampart walls and the streets leading from Bab el-Kasaba toward the sea. Walking the medina takes thirty minutes; the murals reward a slower pace.