The messenger led me through the labyrinthine alleys to an open plaza near the center of the village.

In the nearly two years since he took on the post of president, Mr. Luers has learned to negotiate not only the labyrinthine alleys of the Met but also the corridors of power outside of it.

IN the labyrinthine alleys of the capital, Stone Town, stores rub shoulders with mildewed mosques and palaces from the days of the great sultans.

Captain Zamora said 16-man squads had routinely patrolled the market area, but suspected dealers would scatter into the labyrinthine alleys.

Getting down on his belly, he inched over to the edge of the roof and scanned the labyrinthine alley in the direction of the transformed.

Machine-gun-toting soldiers and the riot police, their faces hidden by visored helmets, patrol the city's broad boulevards and the narrow, labyrinthine alleys of the celebrated Casbah.

Like most Venetians, Rossetti kept a map of the city within easy reach, if only to give assistance to a foreign tourist hopelessly lost in its labyrinthine alleys.

Clusters of houses with red-tiled roofs scatter among the labyrinthine alleys, and westward, in the near mid-west of the village, the main street runs from north to south.

The labyrinthine alleys, weaving towards the Jama Masjid, stock delicate gold and silver jewellery, fancifully woven saris, hand-embroidered appliqué skirts and jari (glittering embroidery, often including shards of mirror or glass) shoulder bags, a speciality of Bhopal.

Although its traditionally proletarian nature is changing as the crumbling palazzi become gentrified, a stroll among the labyrinthine alleys of Trastevere still reaps small gems of a bygone past.