World's best urban squares to visit

By Brian Johnston
Updated June 10 2016 - 2:33pm, first published 1:53pm
Djemaa el Fna is a square and market place in Marrakesh's medina quarter (old city). Photo: Scott E Barbour
Djemaa el Fna is a square and market place in Marrakesh's medina quarter (old city). Photo: Scott E Barbour
The Red Square, Moscow: Kremlin wall (at left) and Saint Basil's Cathedral (at right). Russia Photo: Max Ryazanov
The Red Square, Moscow: Kremlin wall (at left) and Saint Basil's Cathedral (at right). Russia Photo: Max Ryazanov
Meidan Emam (Imam Square) in Esfahan, Iran. Photo: SEUX Paule / hemis.fr
Meidan Emam (Imam Square) in Esfahan, Iran. Photo: SEUX Paule / hemis.fr

The best squares are places to remember. In Jackson Square in New Orleans, you can sit in sunshine and munch sugar doughnuts, accompanied by cream-loaded chicory coffee. In Plaza de Armas in Cuzco in Peru, you can buy pompom hats from Quechua women in bright shawls and brown homburgs, accompanied by alpacas bedecked in pink ribbons. Places des Vosges is so beautiful you could make a point of visiting every time you're in Paris, either to lounge with students on the grass, or nibble macaroons in an arcade cafe.

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