12 Cold And Colourful Fairytale Places
It all began with Edward Scissorhands. That sweet, misunderstood outcast. When I was little, I used to get my dad to prosthetically cast scars on my face, then I’d walk around pinching together my and fore and middle fingers, just like Edward.
Disfigurement and isolation aside, the multicoloured fairytale-esque architecture in that film has never ceased to arouse in me that warm sensation when aesthetics unexplainably hits you right in the feels.
The north end of the planet have got it going on when it comes to fairytale looking towns and cities. Maybe everyone would be walking around with corpse paint on during bleaker times if it weren’t for a splash of colour. There’s something captivating about cold climates and pretty colours.
Scandinavia, northern Europe, Russia and Canada particularly send my imagination to the moon.
1) Wroclaw, Poland
“Wroclaw-Rynek-7.2005“. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
2) St John’s, Newfoundland, Canada
“Jelly Bean Row (7701369614)” by Kenny Louie from Vancouver, Canada – Jelly Bean RowUploaded by russavia. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
3) Longyearbyen, Norway
“Longyear-Town-Centre” by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen – Own work by uploader, http://bjornfree.com/galleries.html. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
4) Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada
“Lunenburg Nova Scotia 3“. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
5) Bergen, Norway
“Gamlehaugen castle in Bergen, Norway” by (WT-shared) Smtunli at wts wikivoyage. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
6) Nyhavn, Copenhagen, Denmark
“Nyhavn MichaD” by Michael Apel – photo taken by Michael Apel. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
7) Saint Basil’s Cathedral, Moscow, Russia
“Moscow July 2011-4a” by Alvesgaspar – Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
8) Sisimiut, Greenland
“Sisimiut-centrum” by Algkalv (talk) – Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
9) Honningsvåg, Norway
“Honningsvåg-01” by Luca Boldrini – Honningsvåg. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
10) Reykjavik, Iceland
“Reykjavík séð úr Hallgrímskirkju” by Andreas Tille – Own work – see http://fam-tille.de/sparetime.htmlImage with Information in EnglishBild mit Informationen auf Deutsch. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
11) Inuvik, Canada
“Hospital,Inuvik” by James Heilman, MD – Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
12) Itoqqortoormiit, Greenland
“Ittoqqortoormiit top hg” by Hannes Grobe, AWI – Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons.
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