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 The Pink CityJaipurThe walled city wears a dusty terracotta pink, first painted on for a royal visit in 1876 and kept ever since.
๐ฎ๐ณ Town of Holi coloursVrindavanFor Holi the temple town of Krishna's childhood fills with clouds of pink, yellow and green powder.
๐ง๐ฉ Rickshaw art capitalDhakaHundreds of thousands of cycle rickshaws carry hand-painted panels of film stars, birds and flowers.๐ธ๐ฌ Singapore's Peranakan pastelsJoo ChiatRows of early 20th-century shophouses in soft pink, mint and blue, trimmed with plaster flowers and tiles.
๐ฎ๐ท City of the Pink MosqueShirazA mosque tiled in pink roses, where morning sun through coloured glass paints the carpets.
๐ฆ๐ฒ The Pink CityYerevanArmenia's capital is built of volcanic stone in shades of pink, rose and orange.
๐ฉ๐ฟ Pastel cubes of the M'zabGhardaรฏaA Saharan hill town of flat-roofed houses in sand pink, ochre and pale blue, crowned by one plain minaret.
๐ธ๐ณ The Pink LakeLake RetbaA very salty lagoon near Dakar that can turn pink, where workers gather salt from the lake bed by hand.
๐ฎ๐น The island of painted housesBuranoA fishing island in the Venetian lagoon where each small house is a different strong colour.
๐ฎ๐น Pastel harbour of the Bay of NaplesProcidaA small island where fishermen's houses in sun-faded pink, yellow and blue are stacked above the harbour.
๐ซ๐ท Painted half-timbered AlsaceColmarTimber-framed houses in pink, yellow, blue and green lean over small canals in eastern France.
๐ซ๐ท La Ville RoseToulouseThe pink city of south-west France, built of flat rosy bricks, once rich on a blue dye plant.
๐ฌ๐ง London's pastel terracesNotting HillVictorian terraces painted pink, blue, yellow and lilac, and a summer carnival of feathers and sequins.
๐บ๐ธ Art Deco pastelsMiami BeachHundreds of 1930s hotels in pink, mint, aqua and peach line the streets behind the beach, with neon at night.
๐บ๐ธ Rainbow RowCharlestonThirteen Georgian merchants' houses in a row, each a different pastel, on the waterfront of a southern port.
๐ฆ๐บ The pink lakeLake HillierA small salt lake on an island off Western Australia whose water is a solid, milky pink.Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Jaipur In: Chainwit., CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Vrindavan In: Biswarup Ganguly, CC BY 3.0, source
- Dhaka Bd: Tanweer drmc, Public domain, source
- Shiraz Ir: ุขุฑุด (Arche), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Yerevan Am: ีีงึีธึีช ีึึีซีทีฅีกีถ (Serouj Ourishian), CC BY 4.0, source
- Ghardaia Dz: Camille Gillet, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Lake Retba Sn: Arnault, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Burano It: Kasa Fue, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Procida It: Jamiethearcher at English Wikipedia, Public domain, source
- Colmar Fr: --sinava--, CC BY 2.0, source
- Toulouse Fr: Tonio94 ( talk ยท contribs ), CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Notting Hill Gb: Chris Whippet, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Miami Beach Us: Massimo Catarinella, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Charleston Us: Ymblanter, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Lake Hillier Au: Aussie Oc, CC BY-SA 4.0, source