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- Spanish town painted "Smurf blue" decides to stay that way
By Jon Nazca JUZCAR Spain (Reuters) - A Spanish hilltop village has found a way to chase away the country's recession blues by keeping all its buildings blue, the way they were painted in 2011 for a promotion for a cartoon Smurf movie. "We calculate that around 210,000 tourists have visited us since we painted ourselves blue two years ago, and people keep on coming," Juzcar Mayor David Fernandez ...
July 23, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News - Spanish town decides to stay painted Smurf blue
JUZCAR, Spain - A Spanish hilltop village has found a way to chase away the country's recession blues by keeping all its buildings blue, the way they were painted in 2011 for a promotion for a cartoon Smurf movie.
July 23, 2013 - NBC NEWS