It is a joy to wander its steep, winding streets and make new discoveries.
Anthropologists are fascinated by the women's traditional dress, with its bright embroidering and goatskin boots, and by the one-room homes that line the winding streets.
For a fado weekend, navigate the winding streets of the Alfama district, the spiritual home of the genre, to find the best venues.
The neighbourhood will then host the New Year Parade, a feast of colour and noise through its winding streets on 17 February.
Amid the astonishing bustle in this ancient metropolis, where well-heeled bottle-blondes with cigarettes, headscarved women and mustachioed men holding worry beads weave through winding streets choked with traffic, that is clear.
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Aside from its gorgeous graphics and challenging gameplay, the hook here is that players guide a convoy of armored, mobile attackers through the winding streets of cities seized by an alien menace.
For the first time in several years, I noted the narrow winding streets, campos and piazzas teemed with Americans, English, Germans, Russians, French and, of course, Chinese and Japanese organized into units of dozens.
"The Jordanian Government is not doing enough to help and support the Iraqi people - our foreign policy is completely dominated by the US, " says Nimr, a young man from Salt attending a 2, 000-strong anti-US rally through the city's narrow winding streets.
The winding streets of Paris' northeast have been the home to bars, restaurants and guinguettes - open air dancehalls - since the early 19th Century, when Belleville and the neighbouring village of Menilmontant sat just outside the city tax limits, and drew the working classes for some cut-price going hard before going home to their workshops and factories.
Behind the shopping streets, the medieval old town of La Pigna is a maze of winding narrow streets and steep covered alleyways.
Then I was out of the town center and walking the winding residential streets.
Rolex, as you might imagine, is considered low end here, a producer of mass luxury that is as ubiquitous as the Peugeots winding the streets.
In the French Concession, the city's most popular residential district, bicycles and scooters careen through the winding tree-canopied streets, holding such new buzz boites as Dr. Wine and The Apartment.
They tell the few drivers winding their way through shut-down streets which roads are open.
Those streets, ranging from narrow roads winding around the Hollywood Hills to ten-lane boulevards that cut through canyons of office towers, are heavy traveled the intersection of Sepulveda Boulevard and Venice Boulevard routinely sees 79, 000 cars per day, more than many expressways but rarely gridlocked.
Even locals and compass equipped cartographers lose their way in millennia-old Medina streets flanked by some 3, 000 derbs (winding alleys), which predate city planning and defy satellite mapping.
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