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Bacalar, a small town in Mexico's Quintana Roo state, sits on a 42-kilometre freshwater lagoon whose shifting shades of turquoise and blue have made it one of the Yucatán Peninsula's most photographed alternatives to the Caribbean coast.
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Rothenburg ob der Tauber, a walled medieval town in Bavaria first recorded around 950 AD, is Germany's best-preserved historic centre, with its Plönlein corner among the country's most photographed street scenes.
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Setenil de las Bodegas, in Cádiz province, Andalusia, is built directly into a rock overhang carved by the Rio Trejo, with house fronts fixed onto the cliff face along two facing cave streets, Cuevas del Sol and Cuevas de la Sombra.
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Delft, the small South Holland town where Johannes Vermeer was born, lived and died, is built around canal-lined streets, a leaning church tower and a centuries-old blue-and-white pottery tradition that still operates today.
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Symi, a small Dodecanese island near Rhodes, is built around Gialos, a harbour ringed by neoclassical mansions from its sponge-diving heyday, and a hillside village reached by 500 stone steps.
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Gdańsk's old town pairs a colourful merchant-era streetscape on the Motława River with one of Europe's largest brick Gothic churches, giving Poland's Baltic port city a compact run of photogenic stops.
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Galle Fort, a UNESCO World Heritage Site on Sri Lanka's south coast, was built by the Portuguese in 1588 and rebuilt on a grander scale by the Dutch after 1640, and its granite ramparts, lighthouse and colonial streets remain lived-in rather than preserved behind glass.
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Lindos, on the Greek island of Rhodes, stacks a whitewashed village, a working harbour and a 2,500-year-old acropolis onto one small headland, all of it protected from cars and new construction alike.
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Giethoorn, a village in the Dutch province of Overijssel, has no roads through its historic core; canals, footbridges and thatched-roof farmhouses do the work streets would elsewhere, earning it the nickname "Venice of the North".
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Annecy pairs a canal-lined old town, nicknamed the Venice of the Alps, with a lake regularly ranked among Europe’s cleanest and a hilltop castle that once belonged to the Counts of Geneva.
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Built around the Alhambra's red fortress walls and the whitewashed lanes of the Albaicín, Granada pairs Moorish palace architecture with a hilltop viewpoint that frames the whole scene against the Sierra Nevada.
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Framed by the Nordkette range and built around a compact, colourful old town, Innsbruck packs a medieval Golden Roof, a Habsburg armoury and a cable car straight into the mountains within easy walking distance of each other.
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