Wave-patterned UNESCO plaza.
Pastel Dutch waterfront, UNESCO-listed.
Wooden colonial capital and markets.
Riverside old town below the cliffs.
Lagoon-side economic capital.
Colourful Spanish colonial old town.
Faded colonial island city, UNESCO-listed.
Faded Ottoman-Italian Red Sea port.
A horseshoe harbour of Georgian houses and fish-scale roof tiles, with Fort George above and spice markets below.
The mainland's largest city.
Colonial city of churches and murals.
Whole streets of flamboyant Jugendstil facades — Europe’s densest collection.
Elegant town near ancient Heraclea.
Baroque old town, UNESCO-listed.
Lithuania’s interwar capital: a Gothic castle, the Devil’s Museum and Europe’s largest concentration of modernist architecture.
The old town inside an extinct volcano’s crater, with the Cisterns of Tawila and Ottoman-era streets.
Hanseatic gables, the House of the Blackheads and St Peter’s spire, ringed by Europe’s finest Art Nouveau streets.
Town below the Accursed Mountains.
Cafe-lined riverside old town.
Mogadishu's lively city beach.
A 22-km seafront promenade where the whole city walks, jogs and drinks mate at sunset.
West Africa's largest art gallery, in Lagos.
River-beach city near the Jesuit ruins.
Fairytale medieval walled city, UNESCO-listed.
Futuristic, fast-built steppe capital.
One of the oldest continuously inhabited sites.
Venetian walls around the last divided capital in Europe — cross the Green Line on foot from one side to the other.
Medieval capital on the Yantra gorge.
Ancient Islamic city of 82 mosques, where hyenas are fed by hand at night.
Glide the 17th-century canal ring past gabled merchant houses, houseboats and 1,500 bridges — the city as it was meant to be seen.
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