Wooden colonial capital and markets.
Pastel Dutch waterfront, UNESCO-listed.
Wave-patterned UNESCO plaza.
Lagoon-side economic capital.
Faded Ottoman-Italian Red Sea port.
Faded colonial island city, UNESCO-listed.
A horseshoe harbour of Georgian houses and fish-scale roof tiles, with Fort George above and spice markets below.
The mainland's largest city.
Colourful Spanish colonial old town.
Colonial city of churches and murals.
Whole streets of flamboyant Jugendstil facades โ Europeโs densest collection.
Baroque old town, UNESCO-listed.
Lithuaniaโs interwar capital: a Gothic castle, the Devilโs Museum and Europeโs largest concentration of modernist architecture.
Elegant town near ancient Heraclea.
Town below the Accursed Mountains.
Hanseatic gables, the House of the Blackheads and St Peterโs spire, ringed by Europeโs finest Art Nouveau streets.
The old town inside an extinct volcanoโs crater, with the Cisterns of Tawila and Ottoman-era streets.
A 22-km seafront promenade where the whole city walks, jogs and drinks mate at sunset.
West Africa's largest art gallery, in Lagos.
Cafe-lined riverside old town.
River-beach city near the Jesuit ruins.
Venetian walls around the last divided capital in Europe โ cross the Green Line on foot from one side to the other.
Futuristic, fast-built steppe capital.
One of the oldest continuously inhabited sites.
Fairytale medieval walled city, UNESCO-listed.
Medieval capital on the Yantra gorge.
Ancient Islamic city of 82 mosques, where hyenas are fed by hand at night.
Colourful colonial town frozen in time.
UNESCO silver-mining town folded into an old volcanic caldera.
Belarusโs best-preserved historic centre, with two castles above the Neman.
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