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Zanzibar City 2022 2 photos of this spot

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Narrow, largely pedestrian streets wind between tightly packed multi-storey houses, a layout largely unchanged since the town's nineteenth-century heyday. Photographed in 2022, this scene belongs to Stone Town, the historic core of Zanzibar City on Unguja island.

Stone Town 2022 073 2022 Narrow, largely pedestrian streets wind between tightly packed multi-storey houses, a layout largely unchanged since the town's nineteenth-century heyday. Photographed in 2022, this scene belongs to Stone Town, the historic core of Zanzibar City on Unguja island.

Stone Town 2022 334 2022 A quiet lane in Stone Town, photographed in 2022, shows the coral-rag construction typical of the old quarter. Stone Town grew as a Swahili coastal settlement that became a major Indian Ocean trading hub under Omani Sultanate rule, dealing in spices, ivory and enslaved people during the 19th century.