Chefchaouen The Blue City

Chefchaouen is a lovely hillside City in Morroco. It is known for its blue painted buildings. I was surprised to learn that the extensive use of blue is only about 20 years old. Something most travel writers either ignore or don’t know. The city is whitewashed or painted three times a year for religious reasons. If the paint is only one storey high, it was done by a women.

Many shades of blue

Night blues

From my terrace

A communal bakery. The women bring their loaves in the morning for baking.

Fort built in 1471 by Portuguese prisoners

Vaulted Blue

Apse Ceiling Vault, 14th century, Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy

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Blue Hues

 

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Blue Squared #15

No July, Don’t Leave me Blues

Woven Tapestry,c. 1700, Frederik IV’s Hall, Rosenborg Castle. Copenhagen, Denmark

Tapestries woven in approximately 1700 in Oudenaarde in the Netherlands (modern day Belgium) cover the walls of Frederik IV’s Hall in Rosenborg Castle in Copenhagen.

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Blue Squared #14

Alaska Winter Blues

Alaska Winter Blues

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Aarhus Blues

Aarhus Blues, Aarhus, Denmark

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