Colour cities
174 cities and regions known for a colour: blue Jodhpur, pink Jaipur, red Marrakech, white Santorini. And 321 more places that gave a colour its name or its material.
🇿🇦 Cape Town's bright hillside quarterBo-KaapRows of flat-fronted houses in lime, pink, blue and yellow on cobbled streets below Signal Hill.
🇳🇱 The green wooden villageZaanse SchansWooden houses and windmills painted dark green with white trim, on a river north of Amsterdam.
🇵🇱 The merchants' coloured housesPoznańA row of narrow arcaded houses in bright colours beside a Renaissance town hall on the old market square.Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Bo Kaap Za: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Zaanse Schans Nl: Frila, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Poznan Pl: Stanisław Szewczyk, CC BY 3.0, source