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1Montenegro
15Bar
The country's main port, with ferries to Italy and the rail line north to Belgrade, and a modern town that exists to serve both.
Bečići
A mile of sand and fine shingle immediately south of Budva, backed by the largest concentration of resort hotels in the country.
Budva
The busiest resort town on the Montenegrin coast, and among the oldest settlements on the Adriatic, with a walled old town of narrow lanes, three churches sharing one square and a citadel...
Cetinje
The old royal capital, set in a high karst field behind Mount Lovcen, and the country's historic centre of gravity.
Herceg Novi
A town of stairs at the mouth of the bay, founded in 1382 and fortified in turn by Bosnians, Ottomans, Venetians, Spaniards and Austrians, each of whom left a fort.
Kotor
A fortified town at the head of the Bay of Kotor, wedged between the water and the near vertical wall of Mount Lovcen.
Perast
A single baroque street facing the narrows of the bay, built on the wealth of sea captains who once sailed for Venice.
Podgorica
The capital, and the arrival point for most flights into the country. Bombing in the Second World War left little of the old city, so what stands is largely postwar and later, with the...
Prčanj
A ribbon of captains' houses and gardens along the western shore of the bay, strung for over a mile with no real centre.
Rijeka Crnojevića
A stone village at the head of a river that winds down into Lake Skadar, once a royal market town and now largely quiet.
Risan
The oldest settlement in the bay, an Illyrian stronghold before it was Roman, and the seat of Queen Teuta in the third century BC.
Sveti Stefan
A fortified fishing island turned into a single hotel, joined to the shore by a narrow causeway and photographed more than anywhere else in the country.
Tivat
Once a naval town, now the bay's centre of gravity for money. Porto Montenegro was built on the site of the Yugoslav navy's Arsenal shipyard and holds the superyacht berths, the shops and a...
Ulcinj
The southernmost town in Montenegro, majority Albanian speaking, with an old town on a rock above the sea that spent the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as a corsair port.
Virpazar
A village of a few hundred people on the northern shore of Lake Skadar, reached over small stone bridges, and the usual place to take a boat onto the lake.
Peru
4Cusco
The Inca capital at 3,400 metres, rebuilt by the Spanish directly on Inca walls, which is why colonial churches stand on megalithic foundations across the centre.
Lima
The viceregal capital of Spanish South America, now a city of ten million facing the Pacific from a line of coastal cliffs.
Ollantaytambo
A living Inca town at the far end of the Sacred Valley, its grid, canals and house walls continuously inhabited since the fifteenth century, beneath a fortress of monumental terraces.
Urubamba
The market town at the centre of the Sacred Valley, lower and warmer than Cusco, which is why the valley's hotels cluster around it.
Turkey
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