# Car-free old quarters to get lost in

> Car-free old quarters to get lost in: Venice, Dubrovnik, Fes, Chefchaouen, Hoi An. Travel guide and street photography prints for each.

- Source: https://clevertourists.com/guides/collection-car-free-old-quarters
- Authors: Evan & Clara, Clever Tourists (first-hand, from a 526-day trip across 20 countries)
- Published: 2026-06-16

No traffic, no grid — just lanes that beg you to put the map away.

## Places

### Venice, Italy

Venice is built across more than a hundred small islands in a shallow lagoon, with canals serving as streets and boats in place of cars. The historic center fans out from St. Mark's Square along the great S-curve of the Grand Canal, crossed by the marble Rialto Bridge.

### Dubrovnik, Croatia

Dubrovnik is a walled city on the southern Dalmatian coast, its limestone Old Town wrapped by ramparts that run almost two kilometers around the medieval core. The marble main street, the Stradun, polished smooth by centuries of foot traffic, anchors a grid of stepped lanes climbing toward the city walls and the sea beyond.

### Fes, Morocco

Fes is Morocco's oldest imperial city and the seat of its spiritual and intellectual heritage. Its walled medina, Fes el-Bali, is one of the largest car-free urban areas in the world, a dense warren of thousands of alleys, workshops and one of the planet's oldest universities.

### Chefchaouen, Morocco

Chefchaouen sits in the Rif Mountains of northern Morocco, a small town famous for the powder-blue wash that covers its medina walls, doors and stairways. The cool mountain setting and consistent blue palette make it one of the country's most distinctive places to photograph.

### Hoi An, Vietnam

A preserved trading port glowing with silk lanterns along a riverside old town.