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A vibrant, sprawling hillside city composed of thousands of brightly colored colonial buildings painted in cobalt, mustard, magenta, and coral, densely stacked along a dramatic mountain basin. The late-afternoon sun drops below the rim of the surrounding hills, casting a final, dramatic beam of warm, golden raking light across the central cathedral and its surrounding plazas, while the lower canyon alleys plunge into cool, violet-tinted shadow. The sky is an expansive dome of pristine Mexican highland azure, populated by scattered, cotton-like fair-weather cumulus clouds that glow with incandescent white and peach undersides. The warm side-lighting sculpts the architectural depth of every balcony, bell tower, and terrace garden, producing rich, graphic cast shadows and bringing out the incredible, joyful chromatic density of the mountain city.
