White walls and albero yellow
Seville
Whitewashed houses edged in golden yellow, bitter orange trees along the streets and tiled squares.
Why Seville is albero yellow
Seville, the capital of Andalusia, has a clear local palette. Walls are white. Door and window surrounds, the bullring and many church fronts are trimmed in a deep golden yellow, sometimes with a dark red. The yellow copies albero, a sandy ochre earth dug near the town of Alcalá de Guadaíra and spread on the ground of the bullring and of parks. Tens of thousands of bitter orange trees line the streets; they flower in spring and hang with fruit in winter. Glazed tiles add blue, green and yellow, above all at the Plaza de España, built for an exhibition in 1929. During the April fair, women wear flounced dresses in every colour.
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The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Mathura In: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Pondicherry In: Karthik Easvur, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Kolkata In: Ketanmehta4u, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Juzcar Es: Rafael Tello, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Cordoba Es: Jose María Ligero Loarte, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Granada Es: Jebulon, CC0, source