In most of the villages and towns that dot the landscape of southern Spain you can paint your home any colour you once - as long as it's white.
But one small community is an exception. Though tucked away in as detached a spot as one can imagine, it has become world-well-known and attracted thousands of visitors.
All because its huddled houses, sheltering some 218 inhabitants, are a dazzling burning blue.
Blame that in description to film-makers and the Smurfs.
For decades Jzcar, located stuffy Ronda in Andalusia, slumbered along along along in the middle of rugged mountains and chestnut forests. Long subsequent to was the tinplate factory, Spain's first, founded there in 1727.
Then, nimbly, it jumped into global inflection - Sony Pictures settled to premiere their comedy film "The Smurfs" in the village.
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(The film is based upon a Belgian comic photograph album series and an perky television series screened in the 1980s.)
It was, they claimed, just the sort of quirky place where the vibrancy characters the Pitufos would liven up.
Astonished at this opportunity to leap to Hollywood-style fame, the villagers embraced the idea along with eagerness.
Sony hired 12 unemployed locals to paint all building in town shiny blue, using 4,000 litres of paint.
As a auspices stunt, it was a sensation. Flocks of visitors have been negotiating the narrow mountain road, to Jzcar ever to the fore the premiere in 2011.
They snap pictures against Smurf puppets in the impression-blue streets, gape at the cemetery and the church (after that painted blue by special access from the bishop), and sample "tapas" (period-lucky bar snacks) coloured, yes, you guessed it, blue.
There have been weddings in blue, Smurf art festivals and trade fairs promoting all things blue.
In fact, the villagers are therefore flattering at the attention that their replica Smurf village has attracted that they have declined Sony's set aside to repaint everything the indigenous white.
But one small community is an exception. Though tucked away in as detached a spot as one can imagine, it has become world-well-known and attracted thousands of visitors.
All because its huddled houses, sheltering some 218 inhabitants, are a dazzling burning blue.
Blame that in description to film-makers and the Smurfs.
For decades Jzcar, located stuffy Ronda in Andalusia, slumbered along along along in the middle of rugged mountains and chestnut forests. Long subsequent to was the tinplate factory, Spain's first, founded there in 1727.
Then, nimbly, it jumped into global inflection - Sony Pictures settled to premiere their comedy film "The Smurfs" in the village.
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(The film is based upon a Belgian comic photograph album series and an perky television series screened in the 1980s.)
It was, they claimed, just the sort of quirky place where the vibrancy characters the Pitufos would liven up.
Astonished at this opportunity to leap to Hollywood-style fame, the villagers embraced the idea along with eagerness.
Sony hired 12 unemployed locals to paint all building in town shiny blue, using 4,000 litres of paint.
As a auspices stunt, it was a sensation. Flocks of visitors have been negotiating the narrow mountain road, to Jzcar ever to the fore the premiere in 2011.
They snap pictures against Smurf puppets in the impression-blue streets, gape at the cemetery and the church (after that painted blue by special access from the bishop), and sample "tapas" (period-lucky bar snacks) coloured, yes, you guessed it, blue.
There have been weddings in blue, Smurf art festivals and trade fairs promoting all things blue.
In fact, the villagers are therefore flattering at the attention that their replica Smurf village has attracted that they have declined Sony's set aside to repaint everything the indigenous white.
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