Pastel harbour of the Bay of Naples
Procida
A small island where fishermen's houses in sun-faded pink, yellow and blue are stacked above the harbour.
Why Procida is faded pastel pink
Procida is the smallest inhabited island in the Bay of Naples. Its oldest harbour, Marina Corricella, dates from the 17th century. Houses with arches, outside staircases and rounded roofs are piled on the slope like a heap of boxes, each in a pastel worn by sun and salt: pink, yellow, pale blue, peach and white. As at Burano, people say the colours let fishermen pick out their own home from the sea. The buildings are made of local volcanic stone under the plaster. There are no cars in Corricella, only steps. The island was a setting for the film Il Postino and was named Italian Capital of Culture for 2022.
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.
- Jaipur In: Chainwit., CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Vrindavan In: Biswarup Ganguly, CC BY 3.0, source
- Burano It: Kasa Fue, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Cinque Terre It: This Photo was taken by Timothy A. Gonsalves . Feel free to use my pho, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Bologna It: Ввласенко, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Siena It: Massimo Catarinella, CC BY-SA 3.0, source