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.
🇮🇳 The saffron town of KashmirPamporeFor a few weeks each autumn the fields near Srinagar turn purple with the crocus that gives saffron.
🇻🇳 The purple imperial cityHueVietnam's last royal capital: a walled palace of red lacquer and yellow tiles, and a city fond of purple.
🇱🇧 Birthplace of Tyrian purpleTyreThe Phoenician port that gave its name to the costliest dye of the ancient world, made from sea snails.
🇱🇧 City of the murex hillSidonA Phoenician port whose purple dye trade left behind a whole hill of crushed sea-snail shells.
🇺🇸 Purple, green and goldNew OrleansA city of brightly painted cottages and iron balconies, dressed in purple, green and gold each carnival.Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Pampore In: Ashfaq ahanger, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Hue Vn: Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0, source
- Tyre Lb: RomanDeckert, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Sidon Lb: Heretiq, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- New Orleans Us: thepipe26, CC BY 2.0, source