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The Holy City nickname comes from the density of church steeples visible above the roofline — St. Philip's, St. Michael's, the Circular Congregational Church — a skyline essentially unchanged since the 18th century and the only major American city whose visual profile is still defined by its religious architecture rather than its commercial one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe colors are the palette of the lowcountry coast: the warm coral and egg-yolk yellow of Rainbow Row facades in morning light, the deep moss green of the live oak canopy along the Battery, the pale silver of the harbor at dawn when Fort Sumter is a silhouette four miles offshore, and the chalky white of Bermuda limestone in the oldest building foundations along the waterfront.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"charleston-south-carolina-digital-watercolor-hardboard-coaster","title":"Charleston, South Carolina | Original Series Hardboard Coaster | The Painted Passport®","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharleston is the oldest and most architecturally intact city in the American South — a peninsula of Federal-style townhouses, antebellum gates, and eighteenth-century church steeples rising above the South Carolina Lowcountry coast. 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