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In La Vanguardia’s Readers’ Photos we can admire the autumn sunset in Vilassar de Mar, in the Maresme region, in an image dominated by palm trees and the color of the candilazo sky.
Vilassar de Mar, previously known as Sant Joan de Vilassar, has traditionally been a fishing village, closely linked to the Mediterranean.
The candilazo is a meteorological phenomenon in which the clouds in the sky show a wide palette of colors that ranges from pink to the most intense orange.
As part of the phenomenon of dispersion of sunlight, in the morning and afternoon hours, when the sun is closer to the horizon, the light that reaches the Earth is soft tones between red and orange.
In a certain way, when this light passes through the clouds, it illuminates them and could be said to color them with those tones.
The candilazo is also known as arrebol, which is the red color seen in clouds illuminated by the sun’s rays, especially at dawn and in the evening.
