PHOTO: SMURF TOWN in SPAIN!! i want to go here, i'm a smurf fan and its in malaga! yay!
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For hundreds of years the smart houses of the tiny pueblo of Júzcar, near the city of Malaga in the Spanish province of Malaga, in the region called Andalucía, were whitewashed. There was nothing particularly remarkable about the village of 220 souls and it attracted just a few hundred tourists each year.Then in the spring of 2011, executives from Sony Pictures turned up. They were looking for one of the White Towns of Andalucía to be painted blue. At first the villagers were incredulous but the executives maintained that the publicity stunt, created to mark the opening of The Smurfs movie (Los Pitufos in Spanish) would make the village stand out. Just a little.This is how the village looked just before the vote.
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...and once the painting in the Spring had taken place...the town decided by vote to stay blue as it attracted so many tourists.
i like the houses with the red flowers and red ceramic roof when they do a close up and then the blue....i used to watch smurf cartoons allllll the time in the 80's and i had alllll the smurf stuffed animals.
Andalucía is the most populous and the second largest in area of the autonomous communities in Spain. The Andalusian autonomous community is officially recognized as a nationality of Spain. The territory/region is divided into eight provinces: Almería, Cádiz, Córdoba, Granada, Huelva, Jaén, Málaga and Seville.
For hundreds of years the smart houses of the tiny pueblo of Júzcar, near the city of Malaga in the Spanish province of Malaga, in the region called Andalucía, were whitewashed. There was nothing particularly remarkable about the village of 220 souls and it attracted just a few hundred tourists each year.Then in the spring of 2011, executives from Sony Pictures turned up. They were looking for one of the White Towns of Andalucía to be painted blue. At first the villagers were incredulous but the executives maintained that the publicity stunt, created to mark the opening of The Smurfs movie (Los Pitufos in Spanish) would make the village stand out. Just a little.This is how the village looked just before the vote.
Image Credit Wikimedia
...and once the painting in the Spring had taken place...the town decided by vote to stay blue as it attracted so many tourists.
i like the houses with the red flowers and red ceramic roof when they do a close up and then the blue....i used to watch smurf cartoons allllll the time in the 80's and i had alllll the smurf stuffed animals.
Andalucía is the most populous and the second largest in area of the autonomous communities in Spain. The Andalusian autonomous community is officially recognized as a nationality of Spain. The territory/region is divided into eight provinces: Almería, Cádiz, Córdoba, Granada, Huelva, Jaén, Málaga and Seville.
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that looks so cool!
yeah, i love it. i\'m looking at the map and juzcar is actually way closer to marbella or estopona. what fun though. i wonder if they sell smurf things or have mushroom huts or anything. lol.
That is so cool.
thanks angellady and larissa i think so too. wanna go to spain? lol.
i wonder if they have a poster of this. i\'m so impressed and it would be a great reminder of the next place to sightsee!