The city's good looks have provided the backdrop to some of the world's most popular movies and blockbuster franchises; there is a high concentration of glitzy hotels and seductive restaurants, making it a firm favourite with movie stars; and the city is home to the world's oldest film festival, taking place from 28 August to 7 September this year as part of the Venice Biennale.
Unique for its 16th-century architecture, fort, and upscale hotels (particularly seductive are the renovated former merchants' houses in the hills), Galle is the best example of a city built by Europeans in Southeast Asia.
The hotel is a seductive setting for a writer.
Vikas Patel actually started medical school, but the siren song of the hotel business proved too seductive.
At the Rocamador hotel's restaurant in Badajoz, a seductive rock-walled space with large arched windows, order the thyme-perfumed suckling lamb.
"Magic City" (9 p.m. to 12 a.m. Saturday, Starz) Catch up with the first three episodes of Season 2 to discover all the seductive and seedy goings on at the Miramar Playa hotel and the gangsters who frequent it.
It was adapted into a 1984 film starring Robert Redford as the fictional ballplayer Roy Hobbs, whose rise to stardom is interrupted by a seductive woman, played by Barbara Hershey, who lures him to a hotel room and shoots him.
"It was a very seductive, short-lived environment," said Steven Greenberg, a former owner of the hotel.
As Marvin is played by John Malkovich, an actor with a seductive voice made for pillow talk in Venetian five star hotels, you know this movie is going to get twisted.
But beyond the domino-like deluxe hotels and futuristic shopping malls straight from Star Trek, it retains seductive charms and a treasure trove of archaic spice souks, traditional dhows, date palm gardens and the odd thirsty camel.
