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I share in La Vanguardia Readers’ Photos a photograph taken on the beach of the Philippines in Viladecans, where, moments after sunset, the sky was dyed in very interesting purple colors. It was difficult to differentiate where the sea ended and the sky began.
The purple sky is due to the candilazo, 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. In this case, there is a clear predominance of purple that ends up being totally reflected in the waters of the Mediterranean.
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.
The candilazo is also known as arrebol, which is the color seen in clouds illuminated by the sun’s rays, especially at dawn and at dusk.
The beach of the Philippines is separated from Gavà by the stream of the Murtra lagoon (east), which gives it its name. At the other end, the beach ends at the mouth of the Remolar lagoon (west).
