Walenty Krzak · the Głogowa manor's coachman

Flat farmland in Łódź Voivodeship, 1900: five small villages on one straight road, told by a manor coachman.

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  Miłonice

Dwór w Głogowej · Głogowa+3

Berto Barbarani · Verona's dialect poet

Verona around 1900: the markets, bridges, bells, river and Roman stones of the old city, told by its dialect poet.

• 

  Arena di Verona

• 

  Basilica of San Zeno, Verona

• 

  Piazza delle Erbe, Verona

• 

  Torre dei Lamberti

• 

  Verona Cathedral

• 

  Castelvecchio Bridge

Arena di Verona · Piazza delle Erbe+7

Walter Spies · the painter of Campuhan

Ubud in the 1930s: the market, palace and temples where a German painter helped reinvent Balinese art.

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  Ubud Monkey Forest

• 

  Ubud Palace

• 

  Ida Tjokorda Gde Agung Sukawati

• 

  Pura Taman Saraswati

• 

  Puri Lukisan Museum

• 

  Blanco Renaissance Museum

Ubud Monkey Forest · Ubud Palace+6

Italo Svevo (Ettore Schmitz) · the novelist who sold ships' paint

Habsburg Trieste around 1910: the great sea square, canal, old town and cafés, told by the paint-seller who wrote novels.

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  Piazza Unità d'Italia

• 

  Molo Audace

• 

  Città Vecchia

• 

  Canal Grande

• 

  Sant'Antonio Taumaturgo, Trieste

• 

  James Joyce

Piazza Unità d'Italia · Canal Grande+8

Antoni Gaudí · the Sagrada Família's architect

Barcelona, 1900s: the architect's own route from his unfinished basilica down through the boulevard of rich clients into the Gothic lanes.

• 

  Basilica of the Sagrada Familia

• 

  Mercat de la Boqueria

• 

  Barcelona Cathedral

• 

  Plaça de Catalunya

• 

  Font de Canaletes

• 

  Plaça Sant Jaume

Basilica of the Sagrada Familia · Casa Batlló+6

Hui Bon Hoa (Hứa Bổn Hòa) · Saigon's immigrant property king

Colonial Saigon through the eyes of its richest merchant: market, palace, cathedral, opera house and river.

• 

  Ben Thanh Market

• 

  War Remnants Museum

• 

  Independence Palace

• 

  Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica of Saigon

• 

  Ho Chi Minh City Opera House

• 

  Saigon Central Post Office

Ben Thanh Market · Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica of Saigon+6

Pier Paolo Vergerio the Younger · the town's heretic bishop

Venetian Capodistria in the 1540s: a bishop accused of heresy walks his own town, from market to marsh.

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  Praetorian Palace

• 

  Loggia Palace

• 

  Da Ponte Fountain

• 

  St. Bassus's Church

• 

  Pier Paolo Vergerio

• 

  Koper Regional Museum

Praetorian Palace · Da Ponte Fountain+7

Johannes Frischauf · the Savinja Alps' first surveyor

The Logar Valley, around 1900: a mathematician's walk from a small waterfall to the ice-cold head of the Savinja.

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  Rinka Waterfall

• 

  Frischaufov dom na Okrešlju

Logar Valley · Rinka Waterfall+2

Jernej · a valley woodsman and log-driver

The Kamnik Alps valley of Kamniška Bistrica, told by a woodsman: springs, gorge and waterfall.

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  Kamniška Bistrica spring

• 

  Predaselj valley

• 

  Mali Predoselj

Kamniška Bistrica spring · Predaselj+4

Matija the Herder · a Big Pasture cattle herder

The Kamnik Alps, around 1900: a herder's summer road from a valley hamlet up to the huts of Velika planina.

• 

  wayside cross

• 

  Preskar Cottage on Velika Planina Alp

• 

  Velika Planina

Velika Planina · Preskar Cottage+6

Žiga Zois · the valley's ironmaster and patron

Bohinj in 1800: iron forges, cheese herders and the first men paid to climb Triglav, from gorge to lakeshore.

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  Mostnica Gorge

• 

  Peč

• 

  Zlatorog

• 

  St. Paul's church

Mostnica Gorge · Lake Bohinj+6

Yasui Dōton · the merchant who dug Dotonbori

Osaka 1615 to now: the canal, the markets and the towers of Namba, told by the man who dug the ditch.

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  Dotonbori

• 

  Namba Yasaka Jinja

• 

  Kuromon Market

• 

  Tsutenkaku

• 

  Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium

• 

  Swissôtel Nankai Osaka

Dotonbori · Kuromon Market+6

Maktoum bin Hasher Al Maktoum · the ruler who freed the port

Old Dubai in the 1890s: the creek, the coral houses and the souks a ruler built by refusing to tax anyone.

• 

  Dubai Old City

• 

  Dubai Museum

• 

  Dubai Textile Souk

• 

  Dubai Spice Souk

• 

  Dubai Gold Souk

• 

  Grand Mosque of Dubai

Dubai Museum (Al Fahidi Fort) · Dubai Gold Souk+6

Augustus Pugin · the clock tower's designer

Victorian Westminster, told by the Gothic designer of the clock tower, from the river to Trafalgar Square.

• 

  London Eye

• 

  Big Ben

• 

  Houses of Parliament

• 

  Westminster Abbey

• 

  Buckingham Palace

• 

  Westminster Bridge

Big Ben · Westminster Abbey+6

Arnold Rikli · Bled's Swiss sun-cure doctor

Lake Bled around 1900: the lake, the castle, the pletna boats and the island church, through its sun-cure doctor's eyes.

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  Bled Castle

• 

  The Heart of Bled

• 

  Straža Bled

• 

  Church of the Assumption

• 

  St. Martin's Parish Church

• 

  Grand Hotel Toplice

Lake Bled · Bled Castle+6

Jakob · a Bovec shepherd and carter

Bovec between the wars: a carter's round from the village statues out to the lonely church in the meadow.

• 

  Escape room Bovec

• 

  Knjižnica Bovec

Cerkev Svete Device Marije v polju · Župnijska cerkev sv. Urha+5

El Madani El Glaoui · chief of the Glaoua, Grand Vizier

High Atlas Telouet, 1900s: the salt-road village of the Glaoua warlords, told by the brother who held the pass.

• 

  Hotel Restaurant Kasbah telouet

• 

  Telouet Kasbah

• 

  Telouet Kasbah

Kasbah de Télouet · Hotel Restaurant Kasbah telouet+4

Ivan Hribar · the city's rebuilding mayor

Ljubljana, 1900: the mayor who rebuilt a city after an earthquake walks you from the castle to the dragons.

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  Ljubljana Castle

• 

  Triple Bridge

• 

  Prešeren Square

• 

  Franciscan Church of the Annunciation

• 

  Ljubljana Cathedral

• 

  Ljubljana Central Market

Ljubljana Castle · Prešeren Square+6

Ahmed al-Inglizi · the city's 18th-century architect

Mogador in the 1760s: the port, ramparts and straight streets of a city built to order on an Atlantic beach.

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  Essaouira port

• 

  Sqala of the Port

• 

  Sidi Mohammed ben Abdallah Museum

• 

  City Walls

• 

  Fish Market

• 

  Bab Sbaa

Skala De La Ville · Essaouira port+8

Frigyes Schulek · the Fisherman's Bastion architect

Budapest around 1900: the Castle hill, the great bridge and the new Pest boulevards, told by the man who built the Bastion.

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  Fisherman's Bastion

• 

  Buda Castle

• 

  Széchenyi Chain Bridge

• 

  Hungarian Parliament Building

• 

  St. Stephen's Basilica

• 

  Matthias Church

Fisherman's Bastion · Széchenyi Chain Bridge+6

Sir George Grey · the governor who kept the Domain

Colonial Auckland, 1845–1898: the stream, the shore, the park and the gallery a governor left behind.

• 

  Sky Tower

• 

  Viaduct Harbour

• 

  Auckland Art Gallery

• 

  Ferry Building

• 

  Britomart

• 

  Queen Street, Auckland

Sky Tower · Viaduct Harbour+6

Sir Edwin Lutyens · the architect of New Delhi

Imperial Delhi, 1931: the arch, the stepwell, the great sundial and the shops, told by the man who planned the city.

• 

  Agrasen Ki Baoli

• 

  Samrat Yantra

• 

  Jantar Mantar, New Delhi

• 

  Janpath

• 

  Janpath New Mini Market

• 

  National Charkha Museum

India Gate · Jantar Mantar+5

Gerard Aungier · Bombay's East India Company governor

Sion to Bandra-Kurla: the old creek boundary of Bombay, from tailors and tanneries to glass towers.

• 

  Dharavi

• 

  Fountain of Joy, Dhirubhai Ambani Square

Gandhi Market · Dharavi+6

Luca Beltrami · the Sforza Castle's restorer

Milan around 1900: the castle, the park, Brera and the Duomo, through the architect who rebuilt them.

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  Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan

• 

  The Last Supper

• 

  Sforza Castle

• 

  Milan Cathedral

• 

  Cinque giornate di Milano

• 

  Monument to Leonardo da Vinci

Milan Cathedral · Sforza Castle+6

Michelangelo Buonarroti · the sculptor of the Capitoline

Rome in the 1550s: an old sculptor walks from the Colosseum to the Trevi water, complaining about his city.

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  Colosseum

• 

  Roman Forum

• 

  Capitoline Wolf

• 

  Rome

• 

  Monument to Victor Emmanuel II

Colosseum · Pantheon+3

Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) · Venice's view-painter

Venice in the 1700s, walked from the Rialto fish market to the Grand Canal by the city's greatest view-painter.

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  Ponte di Rialto

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  St Mark's Basilica

• 

  Doge's Palace

• 

  Bridge of Sighs

• 

  La Fenice

• 

  Gallerie dell'Accademia

Ponte di Rialto · St Mark's Basilica+8

Victor Hugo · the novelist who saved Notre-Dame

Paris, 1830s–1885: the novelist who saved a cathedral, lost a daughter to the river, and was carried through the city by two million people.

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  Panthéon

• 

  Jardin du Luxembourg

• 

  Louvre Museum

• 

  Saint-Séverin, Paris

• 

  Place Saint-Michel

• 

  Thermes de Cluny

Notre-Dame de Paris · Eiffel Tower+8

Auguste Ottin · a Second Empire stone-carver

Second Empire Paris, from the Luxembourg garden to the Tuileries, through the Latin Quarter and Notre-Dame.

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  Jardin du Luxembourg

• 

  Parvis Notre-Dame – Place Jean-Paul II

• 

  Louvre Museum

• 

  Tuileries Garden

• 

  Place de la Concorde

• 

  Medici Fountain

Jardin du Luxembourg · Notre-Dame de Paris+6

Élodie · a Seine riverside bookseller

Paris today, from the Orsay to the Louvre: the must-sees, and the small things standing right beside them.

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  Musée d'Orsay

• 

  Place de la Concorde

• 

  Palais Garnier

• 

  Louvre Museum

• 

  Tuileries Garden

• 

  Pont des Arts

Musée d'Orsay · Place de la Concorde+6

Younes · a medina bookseller

Modern Tangier on foot: fountains, coffee, the Grand Socco and the medina, climbing to the Kasbah.

• 

  Mendoubia Gardens

• 

  American Legation, Tangier

• 

  Kasbah

• 

  Mosque Mohammed V

• 

  Petit Socco

Grand Socco (Bab Al Fahs) · Tangier American Legation+7

Esther Bensimon · a mellah seamstress

Casablanca between the wars: the synagogue, art school and cathedral of Sidi Belyout, seen by a mellah seamstress.

• 

  Sacred Heart Cathedral

• 

  United Nations Square

• 

  School of Fine Arts of Casablanca

Sacred Heart Cathedral · United Nations Square+4

Hubert Lyautey · France's first Resident-General

Colonial Casablanca, 1912–1925: the square, the gates and the medina lanes where a French marshal drew his line.

• 

  United Nations Square

• 

  Rick's Café Casablanca

• 

  Casablanca Clock Tower

• 

  Church of San Buenaventura

• 

  Mausoleum of Allal al-Qairawani

United Nations Square · Rick's Café Casablanca+3

Idris I · Morocco's first ruler, buried here

Eighth-century Morocco: a hunted prince, the hill tribes who sheltered him, and the white town that grew over his grave.

• 

  Moulay Idriss Downtown

Moulay Idriss shrine · Minaret rond+3

Juba II · king of Mauretania

Roman Morocco in olive country: the villas, presses and temples of Volubilis, told by its Berber king.

• 

  The House of the Ephebe

• 

  The Basilica

• 

  Templo Capitolino

• 

  The House of Orpheus

• 

  House of Venus

• 

  Decomanus Est Ouest

Volubilis · Capitoline Temple+6

Mohammed ben Larbi Jamai · a fallen grand vizier

Meknes in the 1890s: the palace, souk, square and prison pit of a grand vizier who lost everything in a week.

• 

  Dar Jamai Museum

• 

  Al-Hadeem Square

• 

  Mausoleum of Moulay Ismail

• 

  Lalla Aouda Mosque

Place El-Hedim · Dar Jamai Museum+3

Walter Burton Harris · The Times' Morocco correspondent

Tangier in the 1920s international zone: consuls, market women and spies, from Place de France up into the medina.

• 

  American Legation, Tangier

• 

  American Legation, Tangier

Tangier American Legation · Grand Socco (Bab Al Fahs)+3

Moulay Ismail · the sultan who built Meknes

Imperial Meknes, 1700: the gates, tomb, prison and great square of the sultan who built the city.

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  Mausoleum of Moulay Ismail

• 

  Al-Hadeem Square

• 

  Dar Jamai Museum

• 

  Lalla Aouda Mosque

• 

  Bab Rhaباب الرحى

Mausoleum of Moulay Ismail · Bab Mansour+6

Fatima al-Fihri · founder of al-Qarawiyyin

Ninth-century Fez to today: a merchant's daughter walks the medina she paid to teach in, from Bab Boujloud to the hill of tombs.

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  Jnan Sbil Gardens

• 

  Bou Inania Madrasa

• 

  Dar al-Magana

• 

  Funduq al-Najjariyyin

• 

  Al-Attarine Madrasa

• 

  University of al-Qarawiyyin

Bab Boujloud · Bou Inania Madrasa+8

Ibn al-Khatib · Granada's exiled poet-vizier

Medieval Fez seen by an exiled Andalusi poet: palace gates, the Mellah, madrasas, tanning pits and a prison door.

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  Royal Palace of Fez

• 

  Jnan Sbil Gardens

• 

  Dar Batha Museum of Islamic Arts

• 

  Ibn al-Khatib

• 

  Marinid Tombs

• 

  Al-Attarine Madrasa

Royal Palace of Fez · Marinid Tombs+8

El Madani El Glaoui · the kasbah’s Glaoui lord

Ouarzazate, 1900s: the caravan crossroads below Kasbah Taourirt, and the garrison town that grew over it.

• 

  Kasbah Taourirt

• 

  Municipalité de Ouarzazate

• 

  Médiathèque Ouarzazate

Kasbah Taourirt · Musée du Cinéma+6

Madani el Glaoui · the sultan's Grand Vizier

Fez, 1912: an Atlas warlord's day across the old city, from the Mellah's synagogue to the fort on the hill.

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  Ibn Danan Synagogue

• 

  Bou Inania Madrasa

• 

  Dar al-Magana

• 

  Dar Glaoui

• 

  Funduq al-Najjarin

• 

  Zawiya of Moulay Idris II

University of al-Qarawiyyin · Bou Inania Madrasa+8

Leo Africanus (al-Hasan al-Wazzan) · Fez's exiled chronicler

Sixteenth-century Fes el-Jdid: the bread ovens, butter stalls, salt quarter and palace kitchens of the royal city, remembered from exile.

• 

  Jnan Sbil Gardens

• 

  Royal Palace of Fez

• 

  Bab Chems

• 

  Grand Mosque of Fes el-Jdid

• 

  Bab Semmarine

• 

  Mellah of Fez

Jnan Sbil Gardens · Royal Palace of Fez+5

Yaqub al-Mansur · the caliph who built Rabat

Almohad Rabat, 1190s: the gates, citadel and giant unfinished mosque of a capital that was abandoned at its founder's death.

• 

  Bab Oudaya

• 

  Kasbah of the Udayas

• 

  Hassan Tower

• 

  Mausoleum of Mohammed V

• 

  Rabat

• 

  Moulay Slimane Mosque

Kasbah of the Udayas · Hassan Tower+4

Evliya Çelebi · the sultan’s runaway page

Ottoman Istanbul, 1630s: a palace page turned wanderer walks Sultanahmet, Topkapı and the spice quays.

• 

  Blue Mosque, Istanbul

• 

  Basilica Cistern

• 

  Hagia Sophia

• 

  Topkapı Palace

• 

  Obelisk of Theodosius

• 

  Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum

Blue Mosque · Hagia Sophia+6

Camilo Castelo Branco · the city's jailed novelist

Porto in the 1860s: the jail, the courts, the lanes and the quay in the words of the city's most scandalous novelist.

• 

  Clérigos Church

• 

  Dom Luís I Bridge

• 

  Portuguese Centre of Photography

• 

  Igreja de São Bento da Vitória

• 

  Casa dos Maias

• 

  Palácio da Bolsa

Clérigos Church · Palácio da Bolsa+6

Joon Lee · a Yeonnam-dong songwriter

Seoul now, after dark: a Hongdae songwriter’s route from a vanished city gate to the City Hall lawn.

• 

  Hammering Man

• 

  Deoksugung

• 

  Seokjojeon

• 

  Seoul City Hall

• 

  Seodaemun

• 

  Sontag Hotel

Deoksugung · Hammering Man+5

Basil of Caesarea · the bishop who ordered the cells

Fourth-century Cappadocia meets modern Göreme: the rock-cut churches, cave homes and pigeon cliffs of one valley.

• 

  Aziz Basil Şapeli

• 

  Roma Kalesi

• 

  GÜVERCINLIK VADISI başl.

• 

  Churches of Göreme

• 

  Sunset Point

Göreme Open-Air Museum · Sunset Point+6

Robert Hoddle · the surveyor who drew the grid

Melbourne, 1837 onward: the surveyor's grid, the gold-rush streets it filled, and the ground it was drawn over.

• 

  Melbourne

• 

  Hoddle Grid

• 

  Collins Street, Melbourne

• 

  St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne

• 

  Melbourne Cricket Ground

• 

  Melbourne Town Hall

St Paul's Cathedral · Flinders Street Station+6

Marquis of Pombal · the king's ruthless chief minister

Belém after the 1755 earthquake: the palace, the salted ground, the monastery and the river tower, seen by the minister who ran the ruins.

• 

  Palace of Ajuda

• 

  Jerónimos Monastery

• 

  National Museum of Archaeology, Lisbon

• 

  Monument of the Discoveries

• 

  Belém Tower

• 

  Igreja da Memória

Mosteiro dos Jerónimos · Belém Tower+7

Prince Bhanurangsi Savangwongse · King Mongkut's last living son

Rattanakosin Island in 1928: palaces, a captured cannon and a royal cremation ground, walked by an old prince.

• 

  Grand Palace

• 

  Wat Pho

• 

  Bangkok National Museum

• 

  Sanam Luang

• 

  Charoen Sri 34 Bridge

• 

  Phaya Tani

The Grand Palace · Wat Pho+7

José Marques da Silva · the architect of São Bento station

Porto around 1906: bookshops, tiles, granite and iron, walked downhill from Carmelitas to the Douro with the man who drew the station.

• 

  Livraria Lello

• 

  São Bento railway station

• 

  Porto Cathedral

• 

  Dom Luís I Bridge

• 

  Vila Nova de Gaia

• 

  Casa da Rua de D. Hugo

Livraria Lello · São Bento railway station+7

Ōta Dōkan · the builder of Edo Castle

Marunouchi and the palace moats, 1457: how a fort above a tidal cove became the capital of Japan.

• 

  Tokyo Station

• 

  Tokyo Imperial Palace

• 

  太田道灌像

• 

  Tokyo International Forum

• 

  Meiji Seimei Kan

• 

  Tokyo Station train tracks Viewpoint 6F

Tokyo Station · Tokyo Imperial Palace+6

Moulay Ali ibn Rashid · the town's founder

Chefchaouen, 1471 onwards: the mountain fortress, the blue lanes and the kasbah, walked from the hilltop down.

• 

  Chefchaouen

• 

  Eglise

• 

  Molay Ali Ben Rachid

• 

  Dar El Ouahabi

• 

  Escaleras de colores

• 

  Grand Mosque of Chefchaouen

Chefchaouen medina · Grand Mosque of Chefchaouen+6

Sidi Ali ou Amar · the ksar's own marabout saint

The earthen town of Ait Benhaddou, told from its hilltop shrine: caravans, mud walls and a village that emptied.

• 

  Aït Benhaddou

• 

  Kasbah de Aït Ben Haddou

• 

  Vieux Grenier

• 

  Point de vue

Ksar of Ait-Ben-Haddou · Kasbah Ait Ougram+4

Leo Africanus (al-Hasan al-Wazzan) · the traveller who described Africa

Sixteenth-century Marrakesh: the Kasbah walls, royal tombs and booksellers' minaret, seen by the traveller who described it all.

• 

  El Badi Palace

• 

  Koutoubia Mosque

• 

  Tombeaux Saadiens ضريح السعديين

• 

  Kasbah Mosque, Marrakesh

• 

  Bab Agnaou

• 

  Sidi Souhaili

El Badi Palace · Saadian Tombs+6

Abu Inan Faris · the madrasa-building Marinid sultan

Marinid Fez, 1350s: palace gates, a water clock and a madrasa, told by the sultan whose hour ran out.

• 

  Royal Palace of Fez

• 

  Bou Inania Madrasa

• 

  University of al-Qarawiyyin

• 

  Bab Dekkakin

• 

  Jnan Sbil Gardens

• 

  Dar Batha

Royal Palace of Fez · Bab Bou Jeloud+7

Jan Janszoon (Murat Reis the Younger) · the Bou Regreg corsair admiral

Corsair-era Rabat: from the parliament's colonnade up through the Andalusian medina to the pirates' citadel above the river.

• 

  House of Representatives

• 

  Kasbah of the Udayas

• 

  Le Musée de la Monnaie de Bank Al-Maghrib

• 

  Théâtre Mohammed Vمسرح محمد الخامس

• 

  Andalusian wall of Rabat

• 

  Great Mosque, Rabat

Kasbah of the Udayas · Moroccan Parliament+5

Abdallah al-Ghalib · the sultan who built the madrasa

Saadian Marrakesh, 1560s: the medina's great sights and the small doorways between them, told by the sultan who built two of them.

• 

  La Mamounia

• 

  Kutubiyya Mosque

• 

  Jemaa el-Fnaa

• 

  Mosque of the Cat

• 

  Dar Cherifa

• 

  Mouassine Mosque

Jemaa el-Fnaa · Koutoubia Mosque+7

Ba Ahmed ibn Musa · the sultan's grand vizier

Marrakesh in 1900: the square, souks, palaces and minaret of a grand vizier who ruled the city and lost it all.

• 

  Jemaa el-Fnaa

• 

  Place Djemaa el-Fna ساحة جامع الفناء

• 

  Dar Si Said

• 

  Bahia Palace

• 

  Kutubiyya Mosque

• 

  La Mamounia

Jemaa el-Fnaa · Bahia Palace+6

Abdallah al-Ghalib · the Saadian sultan who rebuilt Marrakesh

A 16th-century sultan leads you through his rebuilt Marrakesh to the college that bears another man's name, not his.

• 

  Mosque of the Cat

• 

  Dar Cherifa

• 

  Mouassine Mosque

• 

  Mouassine Fountain

• 

  Zawiya of Sidi Abd el-Aziz

• 

  Almoravid Qubba

Jemaa el-Fnaa · Mouassine Fountain+6

Henry Bayles Ford · Cape Otway's first lighthouse keeper

A lighthouse keeper walks his own coast of wrecks, from the Apostles to Apollo Bay, and admits he couldn't save them all.

• 

  12 Apostles Sign

• 

  Gibson Steps

• 

  Shipwreck Beach

• 

  Castle Cove Lookout

• 

  Cape Otway Lighthouse Cemetery

• 

  Saint Aidan's Anglican Church

The Twelve Apostles · Gibson Steps+8

Gregorio Pérez · Caín's goat-herd and chamois hunter

A dead goat-herd who conquered the Naranjo in 1904 guides you along his gorge — and something waits there he never lived to see.

• 

  Mirador del Tombo

• 

  Ermita Corona

• 

  Presa de Caín

• 

  Los Rebecos Bridge

• 

  Cabaña La Sota

• 

  Majada de Culiembro

Cares Gorge · Caín+8

José Rodríguez de Losada · the clockmaker behind Sol's clock

A church, a convent and a fountain vanished from Sol in one lifetime — five stones name who did it.

• 

  Kilómetro Cero

• 

  Puerta del Sol Clock

• 

  Olga Ramos

• 

  Estatua de la Mariblanca

• 

  Monasterio de San Felipe

Puerta del Sol · Kilómetro Cero+3

Washington Irving · American writer who lodged in the Alhambra

An American writer buried a Moorish gold legend in the Alhambra's stones—read the seven clues and dig it back up.

• 

  Pilar de Carlos V

• 

  Plaque to Washington Irving

• 

  A la memoria del Cabo de Inválidos José García

• 

  Palace of Charles V

• 

  Court of the Lions

• 

  Partal Palace

Alhambra · Court of the Lions+5

José Martín de Aldehuela · the bridge's architect

An architect confesses the secret room hidden inside Ronda's bridge over a 120-metre drop.

• 

  Plaza de Toros de Ronda

• 

  Al Toro de Lidia

• 

  Ríos Rosas

• 

  Mirador de Aldehuela

• 

  Vista del puente nuevo

Puente Nuevo · Plaza de Toros+3

Ramón del Valle-Inclán · bearded Galician café-writer of Madrid

A one-armed poet leads you from Madrid's Km 0 to a warped alley mirror that once made him rewrite Spanish literature.

• 

  Kilómetro Cero

• 

  Estatua de la Mariblanca

• 

  Casa Labra

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  Statue of the Bear and the Strawberry Tree

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  Ramón del Valle Inclán

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  Teatro Español

Puerta del Sol · Callejón del Gato+5

Thomas Playfair · the Rocks butcher turned Sydney mayor

A dead butcher-turned-mayor needs his name pieced back together from Rocks stairs, shopfronts and a half-numbered cottage.

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  Argyle Cut

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  Argyle Bridge

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  Glenmore Hotel

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  Argyle Stores

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  Penrhyn House

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  Cadmans Cottage

Argyle Cut · The Rocks+6

Susona · legendary daughter of the old Jewish quarter

A Jewish girl who betrayed her own family for love still walks Santa Cruz's alleys, begging you to find her witness.

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  Monumento a Juan Pablo II

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  Una Ave María

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  Santa Cruz, Seville

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  Casa de Murillo

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  Monumento a Don Juan Tenorio

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  Triunfo de Nuestra Señora del Patrocinio

Santa Cruz · Plaza del Triunfo+5

Diego de Aranda · a scribe of the Indies fleet

A fleet scribe's lost silver register pulls you from Plaza Nueva to the golden tower where treasure once landed.

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  Plaza Nueva

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  Postigo del Aceite

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  Curro Romero

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  Teatro de la Maestranza

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  Mozart

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  Museo Naval Torre del Oro

Plaza Nueva · Torre del Oro+5

Tom Feeney · Sydney's old rat-catcher

A plague-era rat-catcher hid Sydney's true name in the stones before the bulldozers came for The Rocks.

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  Cadman's Cottage

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  Suez Canal

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  Susannah Place

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  The Argyle Cut

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  Sydney Observatory

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  Dawes Point

The Rocks · Sydney Harbour Bridge+6