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.
🇰🇷 Seoul's village of grey tiled roofsBukchonA hillside quarter of traditional Korean houses with dark grey tiled roofs, between two royal palaces.
🇮🇷 The village carved in grey conesKandovanA village in north-west Iran where homes are hollowed out of pale cone-shaped rocks of volcanic ash.
🇵🇪 Inca stone and a rainbow flagCuscoThe old Inca capital: fitted grey stone walls, red tiled roofs, blue balconies and brightly dyed textiles.Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Bukchon Kr: kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Kandovan Ir: Rəcəb Yaxşı, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Cusco Pe: gertrudis2010, CC BY-SA 3.0, source