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The houses are special. Some are several floors high, like ancient skyscrapers, built from brown earth bricks and decorated with bright white patterns around the windows that look like lace or icing. When the sun sets, the whole city glows golden.
Families have lived in the same houses for many generations. The ground floors were often used to store food, the middle floors for living, and the very top rooms for sitting with friends and looking out over the rooftops.
Winding between the houses are busy markets called souqs, where people have traded spices, honey, cloth and silver for hundreds of years. Because the Old City is so old and so beautiful, it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, protected for everyone.