I firmly believe that one can learn much and distract oneself with all the details from our daily environment which, because of tiredness, lack of time or from force of habit, pass unnoticed.

The street is rich of these details. It's a permanent field of discoveries and experiments. It's the place of the unforeseen and of the mixture. It's a superposition in time and space of personal life stories. It's a crazy density of images, sounds and smells.

Ruavista seeks to organize the streets wealth and to share it with the greatest number of people worldwide and strives to promote a new form of urban tourism based upon visiting ordinary streets and paying attention to details rather than famous spots and beautiful architecture.

Above all, my goal is to arouse your curiosity and feed mine.

My name Marc Voelckel.

I was born rue du Pourquoi-Pas in Toulon, France

I spent my childhood place Dupleix à Paris, and then rue Cépré, still in Paris. I grew up and move to live on my own: rue Oudinot, cité Anibal and rue Toullier again in Paris, then rua das Doze Casas in Porto, Portugal, rua Triunvirato in Belém, Brazil and finally rua Barão de São Francisco in Rio de Janeiro.

I worked rue de l'Université in Paris, then rua Quintino Bocaiuva in Belém and now rua Barão de São Francisco in Rio de Janeiro.

Mes favourite streets are: rue Ginoux, rue de la Glacière and rue des Fossés-Saint-Bernard in Paris, rue Gutenberg in Strasburg, rua Imaculada Conceição inSão Paulo, rua Triunvirato in Belém and rua Barão de São Francisco in Rio.