How did Wynwood Walls start?
In October of 2009, Tony Goldman dreamed up an open-air gallery of murals called Wynwood Walls.
The gallery opened a couple months later to coincide with Art Basel.
Goldman's vision was that the entire Wynwood neighborhood would become a canvas for urban street art..
What is Wynwood known for?
Wynwood is a neighborhood in Miami, Florida.
Wynwood is known for being an entertainment district, with artwork, restaurants, breweries, clothing stores, and dance venues, among other retail options..
Why is Wynwood famous?
Wynwood is an eclectic district in the urban core of Miami, Florida.
It is home to art galleries, retail stores, antique shops, eclectic bars, artisanal eateries and one of the largest open-air street-art installations in the world..
- A compact district squeezed in between Edgewater to the East, Allapattah to the West (on the other side of the I-95), the Miami Design District to the north, and to its south, a downtown region known as Town Square, Wynwood covers approximately 1.294 square miles, which is smaller compared to other neighborhoods in the
- Wynwood has long been referred to as Little San Juan and is commonly known as El Barrio, because many Puerto Ricans immigrated to this Miami neighborhood from the island and northeastern cities in the 1950s.
Puerto Rican-owned restaurants, shops, markets and other businesses line the streets of Wynwood. - Wynwood roughly is divided by North 20th Street to the south, I-195 to the north, I-95 to the west and the Florida East Coast Railway to the east.
