Villages Where Every House Is Painted In Same Colour

There are villages where every house is painted in the same colour.  Do you also find it fascinating? Each of these villages is one of the most mesmerising and historic examples of uniformity and structural development. From Spain's blue village to India's pink sanitation initiative, here is a list of the four most popular villages where nearly all houses are painted in one single colour scheme. 

Villages Where Every House Is Painted In The Same Colour

1. Juzcar - The Blue Village

Originally, one of Andalusia’s traditional white villages. In 2011, Sony Pictures painted the entire village blue to promote The Smurfs movie. About 175 buildings, including homes, a church, a town hall, and cemetery structures, were painted the same blue shade. After the campaign ended, residents voted to keep the village blue permanently because tourism exploded from a few hundred visitors to tens of thousands annually.

Juzcar Is The Blue Village (Image Credit: Canva)

2. Patidad - The Pink Village

Patidad village near Gondal in Gujarat became known as India’s “Pink Village.” Inspired by Jaipur’s Pink City identity, villagers painted public buildings, homes, gates, temples, schools, and streets in pink.

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3. Sidi Bou Said - The Blue-and-White Village

This historic Tunisian hill village is globally famous for its strict blue-and-white architectural colour identity. Houses are overwhelmingly whitewashed with vivid blue doors, shutters, and window frames. The colour style became culturally protected and defines the entire settlement’s appearance. Although technically two colours are used together, the village follows a remarkably uniform palette across almost all structures.

Sidi Bou Said Is The Blue-and-White Village (Image Credit: Canva)

4. Nanaksagar - The Pink Sanitation Village

Nanaksagar village launched a sanitation-linked pink-paint initiative during the Swachh Bharat campaign. Reports state that all 206 houses were painted pink. The pink colour symbolised households that had built and used toilets. Unlike tourist-focused colour villages, this was tied to a public-health and sanitation campaign.

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Each of the above-mentioned villages, in a way, followed uniformity in the context of colours and shades in which the properties were painted. However, claims like “every house” are often used loosely, as the above list describes village-wide or near-universal painting programs rather than just colourful neighbourhoods.