ESA meet ESA

On 11th April, we had a short informal meeting with Joel the Head of the ESA office at the Centre Spatial Guyanais (CSG) to introduce ourselves. He gave us a warm welcome.
Even if ESA is a key player of the CSG space port in Kourou, most of our daily contacts in CSG are with CNES and Arianespace.

Our ESA colleagues permanently based in Guyana are located in Neptune, one of the first building erected at the CSG which can easily be recognised by its nice paintings on the facade.

Though some of these paintings have been slightly damaged by natural erosion, the motives remains very expressive. The text written on the white strip in the middle cannot be read anymore. Was it a fairy tale about space?
Paintings likely represent various allegories or simply an illustration of the non readable fable. This type of art technique is frequently found in other space centers like in Baikonur for instance.
Here below are three close up views of this facade as examples.

 

...Who dares to put legend?