Mumbai slum gets Amalfi Coast revamp

Asalfa district gets paint job modelled on picturesque Positano

Asalfa slum
(Image credit: Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty Images)

A Mumbai slum district has become an unlikely tourist attraction following a paint job inspired by the picture-perfect towns along Italy’s Amalfi Coast.

The grey shacks of Asalfa were a familiar sight to Mumbai commuters using the rail line that passes by the shanty town, perched on a hill in the eastern Ghatkopar district of India’s largest city.

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