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The term graffiti is of Italian origin, coined by the Romans and nasty walls and public places with their prophecies and protests, led by the irrepressible desire to share with their fellow citizens.
But its origins are still most traditional civilizations, as the Macedonians, the Greeks, the ancient Egyptians with their indecipherable hieroglyphs, and even cavemen with meetings and so visited their cave paintings, using the walls of tombs , houses and buildings in general to satisfy one of the most conscientious ancestral instincts of man: to communicate.


is in the late 60's, when the conscious political activists and so conscious not members of gangs, both endorse this primitive method of communication. The first, to make public protests, and to mark territory seconds.

Shortly after the U.S. city of Philadelphia, the "bombing" feel the first history of graffiti as we know it today. These early artists, driven by the noble purpose of calling the attention of the press and the community, engaged in bombing, hence the term "bombing", the walls of the city with your name or nickname.