SNOR.
All over Ljubljana.
564 photographs of the same signature across Ljubljana. How much is enough?
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SNOR on facades, doors, stonework and street furniture. The same signature on the way to work, to the shops, home. These photographs document its reach across Ljubljana.
Below is the wider context: years of residents reporting graffiti and public records documenting the consequences.
Residents have been asking since 2009.
We analysed all 59,026 publicly listed citizen submissions. Reports come from streets, playgrounds and monuments across the city.
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2009–2026. *2026 through 4 October. Submissions are not a count of damaged locations.
Freshly renovated facades, tagged again.
“Complete ineffectiveness.”
A heritage site is left to deteriorate.
Who pays to clean the city?
Graffiti on playground equipment.
A removal — and another request.
A demand for action against tagging.
Graffiti on Plečnik’s stadium.
Explore all 567 graffiti mentions
Prešeren Square.Whose city is this?
This is where Ljubljana introduces itself to the world. Prešeren, the Triple Bridge, the façades that make us stop and look up.
Then we look down. Across a façade in the heart of our postcard: SNOR. Why are we accepting this?
Demand actionWhat Ljubljana says about itself.
“The most beautiful city in the world.”
- European Green Capital2016
- European Best Destination2022
- Best European City Break2023, 2024
- UNESCO City of Literature2015
- Slovenia Green DestinationPlatinum
- tourist arrivals · 2024
- 1,276,455
- overnight stays · 2024
- 2,590,898
"We have a plan, but we don't catch the offenders."
Zoran Janković · Mayor of Ljubljana
Ljubljanainfo headline · 24 April 2026 (translated) ↗The tag goes. The bill stays.
289.343 €
Reported MOL graffiti-removal spending, 2020–2023.
202041.955 €
202175.380 €
202283.641 €
202388.367 €
2024+?
After 2023: no separate annual figure found in the more recent reports reviewed. What are we paying today?
Four reported annual amounts, attributed by the press to MOL. This covers municipal removal of all tags. It is not a bill for SNOR and does not include all private owners’, railway or traffic-equipment costs.
Up to €30,000 damage to one train.
Slovenian Railways gave this upper damage figure to Žurnal24. It is a potential loss on an individual train, not an average cleaning invoice. Cleaning also takes trains out of service.
SŽ statement · Žurnal24, 5 January 2024 ↗Three years in a row. Not one fine.
Over the last three years MOL paid to clean thousands of square metres of facade. Over the same three years its wardens issued zero graffiti fines. Not one. Source: their own annual report (Table 8, ZJRM-1 art. 13/-).
- 2023.not one.
- 2024.not one.
- 2025.not one.
“The graffiti is getting bigger and brighter. The taggers clearly aren't afraid of being caught anymore.”
From 61 to 2.
How the Slovenian Police handled graffiti vandalism in the Municipality of Ljubljana in 2024.
- 61
cases the police classified as graffiti in MOL Ljubljana.
- 53
criminal complaints filed.
- 2
case records identifying suspects.
The dataset does not establish convictions or recovery of damages. This is not a count of unique people.
Source: Slovenian Police open data for 2024, KZ-1 220, GRAFITI marker, Ljubljana administrative-unit filter. These records cover graffiti generally, not just SNOR.
Elsewhere, cases reach court.
“He is
no Banksy.”
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564 photographs. One city to care for.
Open a photograph to see it full size, or browse the complete gallery.
Photographs by neighbourhood.
564 photographs. Neighbourhoods assigned using OpenStreetMap.
- Center382
- Bežigrad69
- Moste35
- Šiška28
- Jarše17
- Vič10
- Trnovo10
- Črnuče5
- Rožnik3
- Posavje2
- Golovec2
- Rudnik1
It's not just graffiti.
In 1982 James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling wrote a sentence in The Atlantic that became the broken-windows theory.
“An unrepaired broken window is a signal that no one cares. Breaking another one then costs nothing.”
Twenty-six years later, three Dutch scientists tested it on the street. In the journal Science, December 2008, they published six field experiments in Groningen. They set up a public mailbox. They left a clearly-visible envelope containing a €5 note sticking out of it. Over a hundred passers-by went past. When the mailbox was clean, 13% took the money. Then they added graffiti to the same mailbox. Same street, same envelope, same money. The rate jumped to 27%. Graffiti someone else painted taught them that taking things here is fine.
“Once disorder has spread, merely fixing the broken windows or removing the graffiti may not be sufficient anymore.”
Who pays?
The owner of the facade pays again every few months. Per the National Association of Realtors, properties in graffiti-affected areas lose 15% of value. With hateful content, up to 25%. In Ljubljana's old town, where a square metre runs €5,800–7,500, that's tens of thousands of euros per apartment.
The neighbour pays in nerves. In every new renovation that ends two weeks later with a signature that isn't theirs.
The child pays in normalisation. In the slow learning that this is what a city looks like, that a wall without a tag looks unfinished, that vandalism is simply what is.
The tourist pays in the postcard that doesn't match. Ljubljana sells itself as the most beautiful city in the world. Then they get to Trubarjeva and see something else. They remember, and they tell the next traveller.
And SNOR? SNOR pays nothing. SNOR sees 500 of his signatures still standing and decides next weekend to add another. Because no wall has yet told him not to.
Enough.
Vandalism must have consequences. We demand a serious investigation.
- Investigate recurring signatures and pursue criminal prosecution wherever the legal conditions are met. Those responsible must answer for the damage.
- A cleaning timetable with responsible teams. Recover costs from the identified offenders.
- Publish enforcement and cleaning outcomes. Where the rules prevent effective action, we demand that they be changed.
Ask the responsible authorities to act. Report what you observed, with the location and photographs. Evidence and the competent authorities determine individual responsibility.
Every number on this page has a paper trail.
- 01MOL — Pobude meščanov (public lists, map API and published replies) ↗
We analysed all 59,026 publicly listed submissions. The expanded, context-reviewed index contains 567 mentions of graffiti, painted damage and related public-space issues. It includes word forms, misspellings and tag names. These are citywide records, not 567 SNOR incidents. Titles, dates and original source links are available in the public CSV.
retrieved 2026-10-04 - 02Policija — Statistika kaznivih dejanj 2024 (odprti podatki) ↗
Slovenian Police open data, kd2024.csv: 61 property-damage records tagged GRAFITI in the Ljubljana administrative-unit filter; 53 criminal complaints, of which 51 against unknown offenders. Two records identify suspects. These are case records, not a count of unique people, convictions or SNOR cases.
retrieved 2026-05-01