6 places catalogued in this kind of landscape.
An 18th-century walled town on a ridge above the Alazani valley, with the Caucasus as a backdrop and Kakheti's wine villages below.
An 18th-century sandstone town on a plateau above the Suárez canyon, so unchanged it is used as a set whenever Colombian cinema needs the past.
One of the highest fortresses in the Apennines: a roofless 10th-century watchtower and ring walls on a bare limestone ridge at 1,460 m, free and open day and night.
A 12th-century castle grown out of a sandstone outcrop on the Molina plateau, better known as the Tower of Joy than by its own name.
A vast Chandela-era hill fort on a flat-topped outcrop of the Vindhya range, with seven gates, a colossal rock-cut Shiva and a temple to the god who drank poison here.
A 16th-century walled city of 82 mosques and 360 lanes, where hyenas are hand-fed at the gates every night and the coffee is among the best on Earth.