Another find in this beautiful city.
A ESCADARIA SELARÓN........... Selarón is a Chilean artist who has been living in Brazil since 1983. In 1990 he started a project which has since become his life work. It is a staircase which links the neighborhoods of Santa Terese and Lapa, the stairs of the Convent of Santa Teresa. It is comprised of 215 steps and is 125 meters long. Daily he cleans and maintains his work made easier because he lives right next to it.
He started with the bottom steps which he covered in tiles of colors of the Brazilian flag, green, yellow and blue.
He is better known abroad than in Rio and he asks all visitors to send him tiles from their home countries. There are something like 30 countries represented already.
You can see that his favorite color is red, he uses it mainly in his tiles, his clothing and even his bike.
