You can take a creaking funicular up the steepest slopes (the fare is 100 pesos, around 10p) or, if you walk, pause for breath on the climb and turn to see the pink, lemon, lime and ochre houses standing in contrast to the blue of the sky and deep indigo of the ocean.
They obey every rule of good jeans: medium-rise waist; straight leg; slim-ish but not skinny; raw, indigo denim (it'll fade); absolutely no branding, or unnecessary stitching, or rips, or diamanté.
In 1632, English settlers moved in and grew a bit of tobacco, cotton and indigo before settling on sugar, which was to guarantee the island its future wealth.
And then, in the evening, when the trees seem almost sinister in the intensity of their stillness, the low sun shoots streaks of ambers and gold from bank to bank before the dusk rises up from the forest floor and the shadows begin to stretch and everything turns to indigo.
Dad Harshiv is shirtless, as men must be to enter a temple, above a saffron sarong, and the rest are in shades of orange, indigo, turquoise.
Last month IndiGo, the market leader, ordered 250 new aircraft, the largest single order Airbus has yet had.
To make this point, he imagined Picasso taking Monet to court over the use of blue in his painting of water lilies, because it was the same or close to the distinctive shade of indigo, the "colour of melancholy" he used in his Blue Period.
The textile's striking hue is achieved by dipping it into indigo, a plant extract, and a stabilising mix of egg white, pig or ox's blood and fermented fruit juices; it is then beaten to achieve a sheen or patina.
Klimt was the first president of the Secession and led the way sartorially too; he favoured long, voluminous indigo smocks with embroidered white epaulets.
Along the hill line of Parc de Montjuic, the sky flushes delicate pink, then fades to indigo, then night.Back to top >>ThursdayFOR all the ticking clocks, slogans, posters and occasional demonstrations, the negotiations progress slowly, without urgency.
Most arresting is a ninth-century page of parchment (probably Iranian), dyed indigo blue, with words written in gold Kufic script.Alas, the presentation of subsequent objects is disorientating.
