Zalipie
is a small town in Poland that has a strange and beautiful tradition of
painting flowers on just about everything -dating back from the 1800s.
Of
course, like all traditions, it had to start somewhere. In this case,
it was because the locals started getting new furnaces with chimneys in
the 1800s and women decided to cover up blackened walls in their homes
with floral paintings. Eventually the tradition spread to other areas of
the home and even outside the homes and now it seems the whole town is
covered in flowers.
Even the trees have flowers painted on them!See more pictures of Zalipie's floral paintings over at
Travel and Leisure.
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