Orange roofs under grey mountains
Kotor
A small walled town at the head of a deep bay, its orange roofs pressed against bare grey cliffs.
Why Kotor is roof orange
Kotor lies at the inner end of the Bay of Kotor in Montenegro, a winding inlet often compared to a fjord. The town was ruled by Venice for nearly four centuries until 1797, and its squares, palaces and churches show it. Buildings are made of pale grey limestone and roofed in orange clay tile, with green shutters. Directly behind the town, a wall climbs the bare mountainside in zigzags to a fortress high above. From there the whole town appears as a small triangle of orange between grey rock and dark blue-green water. An earthquake in 1979 caused heavy damage, later repaired. Kotor has been a World Heritage Site since that year.
Values are fair approximations of what the eye sees there, not measurements.
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The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Varanasi In: Marcin Białek, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Nagpur In: Gppande, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Luang Prabang La: Shelly Zohar, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Sossusvlei Na: Anagoria, CC BY 3.0, source
- Cinque Terre It: This Photo was taken by Timothy A. Gonsalves . Feel free to use my pho, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Roussillon Fr: Hawobo at German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 2.0 de, source