Let's start this month with a new UNESCO card. Old Town of Ghadamès, an oasis Berber town in northwestern Libya, was inscribed in 1986.
This great card was sent by Doris from Sweden.
© Corbis/George Steinmetz
Ghadamès, known as 'the pearl of the desert', stands in an oasis. It is one of the oldest pre-Saharan cities and an outstanding example of a traditional settlement. Its domestic architecture is characterized by a vertical division of functions: the ground floor used to store supplies; then another floor for the family, overhanging covered alleys that create what is almost an underground network of passageways; and, at the top, open-air terraces reserved for the women. - in: https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/362/
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