Start with a walk up into topsy-turvy Dalt Vila (literally "high town") – the Unesco world heritage site is a maze of cobbles and whitewashed walls.
The town is divided by the river into Low Town (left bank) and High Town (right bank), the two being joined by flights of steps, including the 200 Stoneway Steps, and by the Castle Hill Railway, the steepest in England.
THE wall of the Bricklayer's Arms, a pub in the High Town neighbourhood of Luton, displays paper money from all over the world: trophies, explains the landlady, from customers with families living abroad.
A good vantage point is the high town of Motovun, overlooking the Mirna River valley: a steep walk up stone-paved streets, rewarded by a 360-degree view from the ramparts.
Union members have been campaigning in High Town, Hereford, and Warndon in Worcestershire.
Tagong, whose altitude of about 12,000 feet makes it one of the highest towns in the world, offers an unfettered window onto the Tibetan people and culture.
THERE are higher towns in the Canadian Rockies, but Banff in late fall is about as close to heaven as one can get.
Located in the southern French Alps, it is one of Europe's highest towns, and has an excellent skiing pedigree, having opened France's first ski school in 1902.
More than 2,500 business executives and bankers will converge on the highest town in Europe for the annual World Economic Forum.
As the millennium dawned, the children braced themselves against the 3,000m chill of Yemen's highest town.
