Flemish gables, the Grand Place and the Braderie, Europe's biggest flea market, every first weekend of September.
Cezanne's town of fountains and plane trees, with Mont Sainte-Victoire on the horizon he painted sixty times.
Cobbled capital of stone arches, the botanical gardens where Blighโs breadfruit was planted, and Fort Charlotte above.
Samoaโs waterfront capital: the fish market, the Immaculate Conception cathedral and Sunday church singing.
Wooden colonial capital and markets.
One of the regionโs biggest livestock markets, camels haggled over by the hundred.
The "valley of heaven", craft and culture.
Buzzing night market and street food.
Highland market town of Ottoman flavour.
Historic market in old Kuwait City.
A 17th-century round tower fort with murder holes and honey traps, beside Nizwaโs Friday goat market.
Seven hundred monuments in a maze of covered souks around the Zitouna mosque, largely unchanged since the Middle Ages.
Twice-weekly highland market of textiles and masks, with Maya rituals on the smoke-wreathed steps of Santo Tomas church.
Living Silk Road museum-city.
Restored market of spices and falcons.
Sarajevo's Ottoman old bazaar.
One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities: the Umayyad Mosque, Straight Street and the Souq al-Hamidiyah.
Great Mud Mosque town, UNESCO-listed.
Gold, spices, pearls and Bahraini sweets in the lanes behind Bab Al Bahrain โ the old heart of Manama.
Labyrinthine Swahili trading town of carved doors and spice bazaars.
Wind-tower houses, the Dubai Museum and an abra boat across the Creek to the gold and spice souks โ Dubai before the towers.
Medieval quarter of a thousand minarets: the Khan el-Khalili bazaar, Al-Azhar mosque and the Sultan Hassan madrasa.
Floating markets and river life.
Technicolour district of temples, spice shops and the Tekka Centre hawker stalls.
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