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Sugar-town pastels

Trinidad

A small Cuban town of cobbled streets and low houses in yellow, blue and pink, built on sugar wealth.

Trinidad (Cuba) , Cuba
Photo: Dieter Mueller, dino1948, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Why Trinidad is trinidad yellow

Trinidad, on the south coast of Cuba, was founded in 1514. It grew rich in the late 18th and early 19th centuries from sugar, grown in the nearby valley by enslaved Africans. When the sugar trade moved elsewhere, the town was left almost untouched. Its streets are paved with river stones. The houses are single-storey, with red tile roofs, tall wooden window grilles and big doors, and their walls are painted in soft yellow, blue, pink and green. The grander mansions around the main square are now museums. A yellow bell tower of a former convent is the town's emblem. Trinidad and its valley of sugar mills became a World Heritage Site in 1988.

Trinidad yellow#F2C95APastel blue#8FC2E0Pastel pink#F0A8A8Pastel green#A8D9A8Roof terracotta#B5583A

Values are fair approximations of what the eye sees there, not measurements.

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Written by the Rang desk with AI assistance. Background: "Trinidad, Cuba" on Wikipedia. If you know Trinidad and we have it wrong, tell us.

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