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Spain's real-life blue Smurf village bans swimming to halt coronavirus
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mirror.co.ukA village in Spain where every building is painted blue has banned tourists from taking a dip in river over fears it could spread coronavirus.
Juzcar was painted in 2011 as a publicity stunt for The Smurfs - and was never changed back after residents voted to keep it.
The settlement, near Malaga in Andalusia, only has 230 residents but visitor numbers rocketed after the redesign - with more than 80,000 sightseers flocking to the village each year.
The official association with the Smurf brand has now ended but villagers continue to paint everything from benches to lamp-posts in the same blue shade.
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