12 Cold And Colourful Fairytale Places

On February 19, 2015 by Louis Falasha

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

Beautiful Cold Places - Wroclaw Poland
Wroclaw-Rynek-7.2005“. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

2) St John’s, Newfoundland, Canada

Beautiful Cold Places - St John’s, Newfoundland, Canada 2
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

Beautiful Cold Places - Longyearbyen, Norway, Svalbard
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

Beautiful Cold Places - Nova Scotia, Canada
Lunenburg Nova Scotia 3“. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.

5) Bergen, Norway

Nattbilder av Gamlehaugen etter snøfall den 26. des. 00.
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.

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6) Nyhavn, Copenhagen, Denmark

Beautiful Cold Places - Nyhavn
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

Beautiful Cold Places - Sant Vasily cathedral
Moscow July 2011-4a” by AlvesgasparOwn work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.

8) Sisimiut, Greenland

Beautiful Cold Places - Sisimiut-centrum
Sisimiut-centrum” by Algkalv (talk) – Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.

9) Honningsvåg, Norway

Beautiful Cold Places - Honningsvåg
Honningsvåg-01” by Luca BoldriniHonningsvåg. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons.

10) Reykjavik, Iceland

Beautiful Cold Places - Reykjavík
Reykjavík séð úr Hallgrímskirkju” by Andreas TilleOwn 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

Beautiful Cold Places - Inuvik Regional Hospital
Hospital,Inuvik” by James Heilman, MDOwn work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.

12) Itoqqortoormiit, Greenland

Beautiful Cold Places - Ittoqqortoormiit
Ittoqqortoormiit top hg” by Hannes Grobe, AWI – Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons.

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