Numerous blocks and terraced houses in New Objectivity style with colorful facades include more than 1,000 apartments, situated in spacious gardens designed by landscape architect Leberecht Migge.

WHERE TO EAT - Clusters of small ethnic restaurants, marked by colorful facades with signs in various languages, line the winding streets.

But survive it did, and today it is a delightful maze of cobbled streets, twisting lanes, colorful wooden facades and marvelous architectural detail.

The centerpiece of the town is the 10th-century Duomo Sant'Andrea, whose busy and colorful golden facade shows Middle Eastern influences.

Still, if and when one steps behind the colorful facade, the back of the show quickly reduces one's interest in the front.

But what had once been a colorful facade in sharp, primary reds and blues was faded here and there or even chipped, and Spock noted an ornamental column no longer standing quite true.

Not only are prices refreshingly reasonable, but you'll find the Québécois as vibrant and inviting as the colorful Victorian facades, lush rolling hills and romantic bistros strewn across this magnificent province.

Think of the moonlike images that Lindy Roy designed for the entrance to the Gallery Met at the Metropolitan Opera House, or the colorful facades of David Adjaye's buildings.

It was a four-story affair with a colorful facade painted bright gold and crimson.

The Darigold Dairy Fair manufactures cheese, (150 million pounds of cheese annually) but is mostly noted for its colorful facade and circus-like decorations, which include a pair of cows swinging on a flying trapeze.