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The most colorful cities around the world – There’s more to a city than just concrete, steel and hard work. The color of a city’s architecture and the creativity of its people can turn a dull, functional town into a thing of vibrant beauty. From the favelas of Rio de Janeiro to the Blue City of India and beyond, color is a core characteristic of some of the world’s most stunning cities. Join us to explore 10 of the most bright and colorful cities around the world today.

Cinque Terre – Italy

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Jodhpur – India

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St. Johns – Newfoundland – Canada

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Old San Juan – Puerto Rico

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If color was a drug, the addicts would have fled to Old San Juan long ago. Old San Juan, Puerto Rico is a marvelous mosaic of color in all directions, a city with a rich cultural heritage shared by the native Taino people and the descendents of European explorers. The buildings in Old San Juan are different from one step to the next, some warm and primary, others bright and pastel. Even the streets of this UNESCO World Heritage site are colorful– the blue bricks that pave Old San Juan were shipped over from Spain one-by-one during the 16th century. Its people are as bright, varied and beautiful as the colors that line its streets, and their hospitality must be experienced by every world traveler. [images 1-5 © thecoolist]

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San Francisco – California

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Valparaiso – Chile

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Bo Kaap – Cape Town – South Africa

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Guanajuato – Mexico

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Wroclaw – Poland

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Favela Painting – Rio de Janeiro – Brazil

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The favelas (or shanty towns) of Rio de Janeiro can be difficult and dangerous for those who call them home. Over 11 million Brazilians live in favelas like those in Rio, where sanitation, running water and even police access are not guaranteed. If you can view them from afar, there is a strange beauty to their nature, one recognized by Dutch artists Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn. Koolhaas and Urhahn visited favelas in Rio to work with the locals to create brilliant works of colorful art on the walls of the homes they live in. Simply called Favela Painting, the duo’s manner of charitable art makes the locals the artists and their city the canvas, instilling pride in a place that few would find desirable. This work by the people of Rio might be the most colorful neighborhood in the world, clearly the gem of our list of ten.

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