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THE SPICE ROUTE

Retracing the ancient trade network that connected civilizations and shaped global commerce, culture and geopolitics.

6 programs

Bascarsija: The Old Bazaar of Sarajevo
CultureBosnia and Herzegovina

Bascarsija: The Old Bazaar of Sarajevo

Founded in the Ottoman period as the commercial core of Sarajevo, Bascarsija is a grid of low workshops, courtyards and alleys where crafts are still practised. Around the Sebilj fountain, mosques, caravanserais and coffee houses hold the city's oldest daily rhythms.

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Mostar: The Old City and Its Bridge
HistoryBosnia and Herzegovina

Mostar: The Old City and Its Bridge

The old city of Mostar is organised around a single arch of stone thrown across the Neretva in the sixteenth century, destroyed in 1993 and rebuilt using traditional methods. Reopened in 2004, the bridge and its quarter are inscribed on the World Heritage List.

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Plovdiv and the Dzhumaya Mosque
Sacred SitesBulgaria

Plovdiv and the Dzhumaya Mosque

Plovdiv is among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Europe, and it wears its history in layers. At its centre, the Dzhumaya Mosque, one of the oldest Ottoman mosques in the Balkans, stands a few steps from the excavated end of a Roman stadium.

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Avdat, Nabataean City of the Negev
ArchaeologyIsrael

Avdat, Nabataean City of the Negev

Rising on a spur above the Negev desert, Avdat was one of the staging cities of the Nabataean incense route and later a Roman and Byzantine town. Its acropolis, churches, wine press and terraced fields are inscribed on the World Heritage List.

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Mamshit: A Nabataean City in the Negev
ArchaeologyIsrael

Mamshit: A Nabataean City in the Negev

Among the best-preserved of the Negev desert towns, Mamshit shows the Nabataean city in detail: stairways, arched houses, painted rooms, Byzantine churches with mosaics, and the dams that captured the winter floods.

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Shivta: A Byzantine City in the Negev
ArchaeologyIsrael

Shivta: A Byzantine City in the Negev

Standing alone in the Negev, Shivta preserves the plan of a desert town with its churches, streets, houses and remarkable water systems. Part of the World Heritage landscape of the Negev desert cities, it shows how life was engineered in an arid land.

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