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The Smurf village

Júzcar

A white Andalusian village painted entirely blue for a film launch in 2011, which then voted to stay blue.

Júzcar (Málaga). Valle del Genal.
Photo: Rafael Tello, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Why Júzcar is smurf blue

Júzcar is a village of a few hundred people in the hills near Ronda, in southern Spain. Like its neighbours it was a pueblo blanco, a white village, until 2011. That spring a film company painted every building blue, including the church and the town hall, to promote the first Smurfs film. The company offered to repaint the village white afterwards. Visitor numbers had jumped, and residents voted to keep the blue. In 2017 the village had to drop the Smurf name and figures after an agreement over the rights ended, but the paint stayed. It is now promoted simply as the blue village, surrounded by chestnut woods that turn copper each autumn.

Smurf blue#3C8DDEFormer white#F5F4EFRoof terracotta#B5623AChestnut green#5F7F3A

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

Colours tied to Júzcar

BlueA primary colour seen in the sky and sea, used since ancient times in art and dye
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Written by the Rang desk with AI assistance. Background: "Júzcar" on Wikipedia. If you know Júzcar and we have it wrong, tell us.

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