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The yellow cathedral city

Granada

A colonial city on Lake Nicaragua, with a yellow-and-white cathedral and streets of brightly painted houses.

Cathédrale Notre-Dame de l'Assomption à Granada, Nicaragua.
Photo: Guillaume Baviere, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Why Granada is cathedral yellow

Granada, founded in 1524 on the shore of Lake Nicaragua, is one of the oldest Spanish cities on the American mainland. It was burned more than once, most thoroughly in 1856, and rebuilt in the same colonial style. On the main square stands the cathedral, painted a strong yellow with white details and dark red domes. Around it, long single-storey houses with tiled roofs and inner gardens are painted yellow, turquoise, pink, orange and blue. Horse-drawn carriages wait under the mango trees. From the bell tower of La Merced church, visitors can see the red roofs, the lake with its many small islands and the cone of the Mombacho volcano.

Cathedral yellow#F2B93BTrim white#F7F5EEDome red#A6392EHouse turquoise#4FB5B0Lake grey-blue#6F8FA8

Values are fair approximations of what the eye sees there, not measurements.

Colours tied to Granada

YellowA primary colour between green and orange, seen in sunlight, leaves, and pigments
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Written by the Rang desk with AI assistance. Background: "Granada, Nicaragua" on Wikipedia. If you know Granada and we have it wrong, tell us.

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