Chefchaouen, and the blue that stayed
Chefchaouen, Morocco. Cobalt walls, a blue door numbered 24, the medina just off Plaza Uta el-Hammam. Frame pulled at street level, capture: November 2021.
What I checked: founded in 1471 as a kasbah by Mulay Ali ibn Rashid, watching the passes against the Portuguese. The name, in Berber, is 'look at the horns', for the two peaks above town. The blue came in the 1930s, with Jewish refugees; sky and heaven, kept close. The mosquitoes version stays a version. Every spring, the town repaints its walls.
Frame: Google Street View, 35.1684179, -5.2638679. Credit: © CRT Tanger Tétouan Al Hoceima.
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