Places of magic
11 places: oracles and sacred sites, magic markets, witch-trial memorials, schools and museums, and towns known for a tradition. Each has a note for a respectful visit.
Middle East
School or museum, TurkeyHarranAn old city of southern Turkey where a star-worshipping community, the Sabians of Harran, lived into the Islamic period and kept the study of planetary magic.School or museum, IsraelSafedA hill town in Galilee where, in the sixteenth century, scholars of Kabbalah gathered and made it one of the centres of Jewish mysticism.
Europe
School or museum, GermanyBavarian State LibrarySchool or museum, United KingdomBodleian LibrarySchool or museum, United KingdomBoscastleA Cornish harbour village that houses the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic, the world's largest collection of its kind.School or museum, IcelandHólmavíkA small fishing town in the Icelandic Westfjords, with the Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft.School or museum, SpainSalamancaA university city of western Spain, with a legend of a cave where a devil is said to have taught the black arts.School or museum, SpainToledoA hill city of Spain where Christian, Jewish and Muslim scholars translated Arabic works, and which gained a name as a city of magic.School or museum, GermanyTübingen