MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA

Middle East & North Africa

De Estambul y el Nilo a las medinas de Marruecos y la Petra de Jordania: conozca primero las normas sobre los horarios de oración, la vestimenta y el Ramadán.

Foto: Vyacheslav Argenberg · CC BY 4.0

City guides

Empiece por una ciudad

Cada guía de ciudad incluye cronología, historias de personajes, lugares imprescindibles, fiestas y normas locales.

İstanbul

Istanbul

2 lugares

A thousand-year imperial capital spanning two continents: Byzantium, the Ottomans and the Bosphorus

القاهرة Cairo

Cairo

3 lugares

'The Victorious City': Islamic Cairo, Khan el-Khalili and the pyramids of Giza

الأقصر Luxor · 古称底比斯

Luxor

1 lugares

Thebes, 'City of a Hundred Gates': Karnak and the Valley of the Kings

أسوان Aswan

Aswan

2 lugares

Ancient Egypt's southern gateway: Nubia, Philae and Abu Simbel

مراكش Marrakech

Marrakesh

3 lugares

The 'Red City': the night market of Jemaa el-Fnaa and the old city at the foot of the Atlas

فاس Fès

Fez

1 lugares

A thousand-year-old university and a labyrinthine medina: al-Qarawiyyin and the tanneries

أبوظبي Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi

3 lugares

'Father of the Gazelle': from pearling village to capital of the UAE

البتراء Petra · Wadi Musa

Petra (Wadi Musa)

2 lugares

The rose-red Nabataean city, and the Valley of the Moon to the south

GastronomíaIstanbul, Türkiye

Turkish coffee

Unfiltered coffee — and when you finish, the grounds in the cup can 'tell your fortune'.

ClásicoNear Selçuk, İzmir Province, Türkiye

Ephesus

The two-storey façade of the Library of Celsus and a great theatre for 25,000 bear witness to the prosperity of Rome's eastern provinces.

The white travertine terraces of Pamukkale

ClásicoDenizli Province, Türkiye

Pamukkale and Hierapolis

Snow-white travertine terraces cascading down the hill, with the Roman spa city of Hierapolis on top.

Balloons flying over the Göreme valley at dawn

ClásicoNevşehir Province, Türkiye

Cappadocia

At dawn hundreds of balloons rise over valleys of 'fairy chimneys', above cave churches carved by Byzantine monks.

ClásicoFatih, Istanbul, Türkiye

Old Istanbul: Hagia Sophia, the Blue Mosque and the Grand Bazaar

Religious layers of a capital that ruled empires for 1,600 years — a Byzantine church, an Ottoman mosque and a bazaar open since 1461 in one nei…