Colorful hilltop buildings in Guanajuato Mexico
There are a lot of colors in Guanajuato Mexico. Some even say that this is the most beautiful city in the country. I don’t know if it’s the most beautiful, but it is nevertheless on the top of the list 🙂
Colorful hilltop buildings in Guanajuato Mexico
What makes this city stand apart, are the hills covered by lots of colorful buildings and houses. You can see them from no matter where you are.
This is a vertical shot of the same hill in Guanajuato..
As a mining town/city, the area is surrounded by hills, which in time were populated mainly by working class residencies. We stayed almost on the top of this hill in a beautiful house of a former mining engineer.
Without doubt, Mexicans like colors…. and Guanajuato proves it!.
On the hills around there is a mix of architecture – typical Mexican, but the overall look is definitely colored 🙂
* I have more photos on the city’s downtown, but in this post I will stick with the colorful hilltop buildings in Guanajuato Mexico. In this shot you can see some of them taken from the lower level of the city. In this area, the houses have a more superior level of maintenance than in the upper area of the city. It is obviously, on one of the main streets going downtown.
Some of these colorful hilltop buildings in the city are basic, even deteriorated, but some are rich and full of history. Guanajuato is a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Here is a view of the historic downtown, taken from one of the hills. From up above you can see some splendid panoramas of the city. Here for instance, you can notice the central Basilica, the University of Guanajuato (white), and the main street in-between the two most prominent buildings.
All the colorful hilltop buildings in Guanajuato, Mexico shown in this post are available as art prints at Fine Art America. Just click on them and you can have prints on various sizes, types and prices for your home decor and more.. You can see them all in my Guanajuato collection.
Stay tuned for more pictures 🙂
West Dover is a small quiet fishing village on Prospect Bay on the Atlantic ocean in Nova Scotia. It is actually in Peggy’s Cove area in between the famous heritage village and Halifax. This is a very good place if you want to relax and stay cool in the summer.
It was at the end of July when we celebrated our wedding anniversary here. I took this photo from the terrace of a nice restaurant overlooking this small bay.
When pointing my camera toward the fisherman’s houses and boats covered by the afternoon fog, a seagull entered into the frame. I was amazed by this lucky happening – What a great gift for this special day 🙂 Thank you seagull!
** I couldn’t resist and I also made a painterly version of it:
My husband and I spent a few months in this tranquil area in a rental house right on the water.
One day we were invited by some friendly neighbors to take a tour of the bay on their boat. This is what the water and the shore looked like in the light of the setting sun when returning from the trip.
The coast of Nova Scotia always brings me serenity and piece of mind. Both images: Fog over West Dover Nova Scotia and Sunset on the water are available as art prints for wall, home decor and accessories. Just click on them for more details.
Dominion Cape Breton, a Heritage Community in Nova Scotia, Canada
Dominion is an incorporated community on the East coast of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia (Indian Bay), founded in 1906. Originally it was part of the Dominion Coal Company and the small population living here was involved in coal mining.
Today the village is mainly a heritage, historic and touristic place, very interesting to visit.
Here are two photos I took in 2013 reminding of the old times when this community was a more prosperous place. I digitally altered the images to give them a vintage look and patina.
This is the Dominion Heritage School House Museum, preserved as a historic building.
… and here is a framed version of it, ready to be hung on the wall
I have also photographed some historic, mining artifacts in this place, that I will post later.
- I also learned that in 18th century, fishermen and farmers coming from France and Spain settled Dominion and the surrounding area.
The Fishery of Dominion
Here is the old fishery – another interesting building I saw in Dominion Cape Breton. I couldn’t find any information on this, so I have no idea if it’s still functioning or not. That didn’t bother me too much, as the view of the historic buildings was so nice. The red classic wooden buildings on the blue background of the water and the reflections inspired me, so I got the shot 🙂 I also digitally enhanced it for a vintage feel…
The image is also available as art print at Fine Art America and here is what it can look like as an acrylic print version of it:
As always, I invite you to click on the images for more information on these prints.
Nova Scotia is full of interesting history and it can take years to visit and see all its beauty and hidden jewels. I’ve seen some of them, so stay tuned for more pictures to come 🙂
BTW: I don’t remember in which day of the week I visited this place, but everything looked like it was on Sunday – the Silent Sunday 🙂
… And as always, traveling and photographing the places I have been in is what I like to do. This is part of my world, and I love sharing it. Share your world!