Cobbled capital of stone arches, the botanical gardens where Blighโs breadfruit was planted, and Fort Charlotte above.
Riverside capital on the White Nile.
Sleepy colonial island capital.
Palau's main town and gateway.
Pastel Dutch waterfront, UNESCO-listed.
Riverside old town below the cliffs.
Wave-patterned UNESCO plaza.
Wooden colonial capital and markets.
Lagoon-side economic capital.
A horseshoe harbour of Georgian houses and fish-scale roof tiles, with Fort George above and spice markets below.
Faded colonial island city, UNESCO-listed.
Faded Ottoman-Italian Red Sea port.
Colourful Spanish colonial old town.
The mainland's largest city.
Baroque old town, UNESCO-listed.
Lithuaniaโs interwar capital: a Gothic castle, the Devilโs Museum and Europeโs largest concentration of modernist architecture.
Whole streets of flamboyant Jugendstil facades โ Europeโs densest collection.
Colonial city of churches and murals.
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.
Cafe-lined riverside old town.
River-beach city near the Jesuit ruins.
A 22-km seafront promenade where the whole city walks, jogs and drinks mate at sunset.
One of the oldest continuously inhabited sites.
Futuristic, fast-built steppe capital.
Venetian walls around the last divided capital in Europe โ cross the Green Line on foot from one side to the other.
Fairytale medieval walled city, UNESCO-listed.
Medieval capital on the Yantra gorge.
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