Walled city of pastel streets
Campeche
A fortified port on the Gulf of Mexico with straight streets of low houses in pale, carefully kept colours.
Why Campeche is pastel yellow
San Francisco de Campeche is a port on the west coast of the Yucatán peninsula. It shipped a valuable export, logwood, a tree that gives a purple-black dye, and it was attacked by pirates so often that in the late 17th century the Spanish enclosed it in a wall with bastions. Inside, the grid of streets is lined with single-storey houses with tall doors, iron grilles and flat roofs. Many hundreds of fronts have been restored and painted in pastels, yellow, pale blue, green and pink, with white surrounds. The town is quiet and tidy, and the long straight views of colour run down to the sea gate. It has been a World Heritage Site since 1999.
Values are fair approximations of what the eye sees there, not measurements.
Colours tied to Campeche
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