Oglethorpe's 1733 grid, still standing: twenty-two public squares laid four blocks apart, shaded by live oaks, with the whole thing walkable end to end in about half an hour. Between them sit the house museums, the tour operators, Broughton Street's shopping, and — down the bluff — River Street's cobbles and the container ships. It is beautiful, it is compact, and by mid-morning in high season it belongs to visitors rather than to Savannah.
Who it's for: First-time visitors, anyone who wants to walk rather than drive, architecture and preservation people, and travellers who want the city's Black history told properly — the Owens-Thomas quarters, First African Baptist and the Gullah Geechee tours are all here.