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.
๐ฎ๐ณ City of saffron and lightVaranasiSaffron robes, marigold garlands and oil lamps colour the river steps of one of the oldest living cities.
๐ฎ๐ณ The Orange CityNagpurA city in central India named for a fruit: the loose-skinned Nagpur orange grown in the country around it.
๐ฑ๐ฆ Town of saffron robesLuang PrabangAt dawn lines of monks in orange robes walk the streets of the old Lao royal capital to receive alms.
๐ณ๐ฆ The red dunes of the NamibSossusvleiSome of the tallest sand dunes on earth, coloured orange-red by iron, around white clay pans.
๐ฎ๐น Five pastel villages on a cliff coastCinque TerreTall houses in ochre, pink and yellow crowd tiny harbours below terraced vineyards on the Italian Riviera.
๐ซ๐ท The ochre villageRoussillonA Provenรงal hill village built on, and painted with, cliffs of red, orange and yellow ochre.
๐ณ๐ฑ Orange on King's DayAmsterdamOnce a year the brick-and-water city turns entirely orange for the King's birthday.
๐ณ๐ด The colour-planned Arctic townLongyearbyenOne of the world's most northerly towns, where rows of houses follow a designed scheme of warm colours.
๐ฆ๐ฑ The repainted capitalTiranaGrey communist-era apartment blocks were painted in bold colours and patterns from the year 2000.
๐ญ๐ท Terracotta roofs inside white wallsDubrovnikA walled city of pale stone on the Adriatic, covered by a tight field of orange roof tiles.
๐ฒ๐ช Orange roofs under grey mountainsKotorA small walled town at the head of a deep bay, its orange roofs pressed against bare grey cliffs.
๐บ๐ธ Painted Ladies and International OrangeSan FranciscoA red-orange bridge chosen to show through fog, and Victorian wooden houses painted in three or more colours.
๐ฒ๐ฝ A ravine full of coloured housesGuanajuatoA silver-mining city wedged in a narrow valley, its hillsides stacked with houses of every colour.
๐ฒ๐ฝ Ochre walls and a pink churchSan Miguel de AllendeA colonial hill town in central Mexico painted in reds, ochres and yellows, around a pink stone church.
๐จ๐ด Walled city of balconiesCartagenaA Caribbean port inside thick walls, with houses in ochre, blue and pink and balconies heavy with flowers.Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Varanasi In: Marcin Biaลek, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Nagpur In: Gppande, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Luang Prabang La: Shelly Zohar, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Sossusvlei Na: Anagoria, CC BY 3.0, source
- Cinque Terre It: This Photo was taken by Timothy A. Gonsalves . Feel free to use my pho, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Roussillon Fr: Hawobo at German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 2.0 de, source
- Amsterdam Nl: ESA (European Space Agency), Attribution, source
- Longyearbyen No: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Tirana Al: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Dubrovnik Hr: Zysko serhii, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Kotor Me: User:Ggia, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- San Francisco Us: Lightandtruth, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Guanajuato Mx: Nathaniel C. Sheetz, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- San Miguel De Allende Mx: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jiuguangw/, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Cartagena Co: Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, source