Visit the M'zab Valley

A walled Silk Road city preserved whole — minarets, madrasas and mud walls glowing at dusk.

Five fortified Mozabite towns in the M’zab valley, a thousand years of cubist architecture in the Sahara.

Ancient Saharan town of desert libraries.

The world's largest car-free old city.

One of the world’s largest squares, framed by the tiled masterpieces of Safavid Isfahan.

Moorish palace-fortress of Granada.

Remote 65-metre brick minaret, alone in a river gorge since the 12th century.

Labyrinthine Swahili trading town of carved doors and spice bazaars.