Well, waiting for you suggestions on haze removal and/or improvements 
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Kept the adjustments minimal (2), should make for a good starting point.
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Photoflow: white balance, dynamic range compression, tone mapping (linear+log), curves
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Edit: New pfi without halos: _DSC0438.pfi (28.0 KB)
Natural look:
darktable (2.7-git): _DSC0438.NEF.xmp (8.7 KB)
Moody:
darktable (2.7-git): _DSC0438_01.NEF.xmp (9.8 KB)
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Very nice image @Timur. There is sensor dust on top of the mountain which I did not bother to remove, though it is an easy job in GIMP.
Here is purely RawTherapee output. Spent some time with the Blue curve in the RGB module for removing the blue hue from just the mountains.
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Very nice picture. It is well-structured with buildings, water, rocks, sky and clouds from bottom to top, it is sharp.
Maybe you could have zoomed back a little bit giving the pink blossoms a bit more room. Maybe there was something to see ad the yellowish building with the blue window.
In my opinion there is not an issue with haze, it’s more about the noise. The picture was taken with ISO 800, aperture F14 and exposure of 1/800 secs.
There was plenty of room to take it with ISO 100. An aperture of maybe F8 or even F5 and exposure of 1/100 secs would not have made a difference in the picture except for lower noise.
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Second take, slightly reducing the blues with a tone curve on the blue channel.
_DSC0438.pfi (31.2 KB)
Walls are a bit yellowish, don’t you think? It’s pure white in real life.
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With darktable 2.60
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@Timur merci for the envious envelope. Senhori pintori, colleagues of the pixels pushers’ league 
Well, waiting for you suggestions on haze removal and/or improvements
on “other improvements”: at 50mm - and unless you had 5 expressos and speed for breakfast amidst hurricane winds - instead of ISO 800 1/800 @ f14, you would have gotten away with ISO 100, f11 and 1/160 too; resulting in much lesser noisy image =)
squaromancer from photoflow de-mi-dolĂł
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darktable, a sec
Cheers
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I think that @Timur was considering hyperfocal distance when taking the shot. The noise isn’t distracting to me but if desired, lowering the ISO to 400 and compensating the speed accordingly might improve the situation.
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Yep, this is what I would do too (lowering ISO in such bright conditions), but my mother knows very little about camera’s modes beyond A and “flash suppression” 🤦
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