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I captured this photograph for Las Fotos de los Lectores de La Vanguardia at 7:27 a.m. in Vilassar de Mar, in the Maresme region.
You can see the colored horizon over the Mediterranean Sea, which is drawn following the route of the Rodalies train on the coast, as if they were parallel at dawn.
Vilassar de Mar, previously known as Sant Joan de Vilassar, has traditionally been a fishing village, closely linked to the Mediterranean, where the sunrise is a daily spectacle.
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.
