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Colours of Sicily

2 colours tied to Sicily, Italy: made there, traded there or named after it.

#E97451 Sienna A reddish-brown earth pigment named after the city of Siena in ItalyPigment · 🇫🇷 France

Red Blood rain Rain that appears red, often caused by dust or microalgae in the waterColour named from nature · 🇮🇹 Italy +5

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Sienna: DanielCD~commonswiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Blood rain: Hans Glaser (Druck), Public domain, source

The weekly palette

Every Monday: seven colours you may not know, what the world is wearing this week, and one idea about colour.