Marrakech

Plunge into North Africa's greatest labyrinth. Dyers hang silk in rainbow alleys, tanners work with medieval methods, and in the square where they once displayed severed heads, a thousand food stalls now smoke under the stars.

From a sultan's ruined golden palace to a French painter's electric blue garden, then a fashion icon's ashes scattered among cacti. Marrakech builds beauty on the bones of what came before.