Visit Ilha de Moçambique

Swahili island town of donkeys, dhows and carved doorways.

Al-Balad’s coral-stone merchant houses with carved wooden balconies, a UNESCO gateway for centuries of Mecca pilgrims.

Faded Ottoman-Italian Red Sea port.

The world's largest car-free old city.

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

Ninth-century mosque with the spiralling Malwiya minaret.

Moorish palace-fortress of Granada.

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