Over the last years urban art has won a spotlight place in the artistic panorama and growing importance in the cities, what happened in Vila Nova de Gaia. One of the most cherished works by the tourists is the Half-Rabbit, in the heart of the Historic Centre, leaning against the warehouse of a famous wine company. His author is BORDALO II, artistic name of Artur Bordalo.

The “Rabbit” entitled Half-Rabbit, in Gaia Historic Centre since 2017 in an initiative GTM-Gaia Todo um Mundo (Gaia a Whole World), makes part of his category of Big Trash Animals, Half-Half, counting on 35 works of art as a whole, spread by other Portuguese cities and several European countries. It presents animals with a realistic side and other impregnated with ink and artistic effect, for the choice of the materials to be more apprehensible, inviting to capture the details not obvious in a first observation.

In Gaia there is an urban art tour already recognised and delimited, which is added as more works are sponsored, now already including works of the artists: Jaune, Nicolau, Cúmul Collective, Marco Mendes, Mariana – a miserável (the miserable), Isaac Cordal, Rigo 23, Escola de Artes e Imagem (School of Arts and Image), Pastel, Third and Miguel Januário.