The painted harbour of Mull
Tobermory
A curve of red, yellow, blue and pink buildings along the harbour of a small Scottish island town.
Why Tobermory is harbour red
Tobermory is the main town of the Isle of Mull, in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. It was laid out in 1788 as a planned fishing port by the British Fisheries Society. The buildings along Main Street face the bay in a gentle curve, and each is painted a different bright colour: red, yellow, blue, pink, black and white. The painting is a 20th-century habit, not part of the original plan, and it has made the harbour one of the best-known views in the Hebrides. It was the setting for a popular children's television series in the early 2000s, in which every character had a house of a different colour. A whisky distillery stands at one end of the street.
Values are fair approximations of what the eye sees there, not measurements.
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