Known as Morocco’s “blue pearl” or “blue city”, the buildings in Chefchaouen are painted using a talc or chalk-based blue paint.
Chefchaouen is in the northwest of Morocco. It’s known by many Instagram and Pinterest addict as the “Blue City,” and is perched amid the dramatic landscape of the Rif Mountains.
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The women of the town had an idea to put it on the map - by painting the entire town blue, they transformed a nondescript village on the old caravan route between Fez and Tangiers into one of the most successful tourist destinations in Morocco.
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The blue in Chefchaouen only started 20 years ago. Traditionally, only one area of the city was painted in blue, the old Jewish area, their religion’s divine colour, representing the sea and sky after escaping persecution in Europe.
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The walls are all painted by hand and walking through Chefchaouen one can see how high a painter can reach as the ground floor is meticulously hued, but above, it is often the original white or bare stone.