Old town In a city or town, the old town is its historic or original core. Although the city is usually larger in its present form, many cities have redesignated this part of the city to commemorate its origins. In some cases, newer developments on t ...

is the historic core of various cities. Old Town or Old Towne may also refer to:

Places

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Old Town In a city or town, the old town is its historic or original core. Although the city is usually larger in its present form, many cities have redesignated this part of the city to commemorate its origins. In some cases, newer developments on t ...

Sarajevo *

Mostar

Bulgaria

Old Town (Plovdiv) The old town in Plovdiv is an architectural and historical reserve located on three of Plovdiv's hills: Nebet Tepe, Dzhambaz Tepe and Taksim Tepe. The complex has been formed as a result of the long sequence of habitation from prehistoric times t ...

Canada

Old Town, British Columbia Old Town is a ghost town of British Columbia, located in a region called the East Kootenay The Regional District of East Kootenay (RDEK) is a regional district in the Canadian province of British Columbia, Canada. In the 2016 census, the pop ...

Old Town Lunenburg Lunenburg () is a port town on the South Shore of Nova Scotia, Canada. Founded in 1753, the town was one of the first British attempts to settle Protestants in Nova Scotia. Historically, Lunenburg's economy relied on the offshore fishery, an ...

, Nova Scotia *

Old Town, Toronto Old Town is a neighbourhood and retail district in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was the first of Toronto's named neighbourhoods, having acquired the moniker no later than 1815, at which time the original town of York was expanding. The ...

China

Old Town of Lijiang Dayan (), commonly called the Old Town of Lijiang () is the historical center of Lijiang City, in Yunnan, China. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. History The town has a history going back more than 1,000 years and was once a confluence for ...

* Old Town of Shanghai

Czech Republic

Old Town (Prague) The Old Town of Prague (, ) is a medieval settlement of Prague, Czech Republic. It was separated from the outside by a semi-circular moat and wall, connected to the Vltava river at both of its ends. The moat is now covered up by the streets (fro ...

Germany

Old town Osnabrück Osnabrück's old town (German: ''Altstadt'') is the historic and original core of the city Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany, also called Heger Tor Viertel. History The city was founded 780 by Charlemagne, king of the Franks. Around 800 made Cha ...

Old town of Regensburg with Stadtamhof Regensburg (historically known in English as Ratisbon) is a city in eastern Bavaria, at the confluence of the rivers Danube, Naab and Regen, Danube's northernmost point. It is the capital of the Upper Palatinate subregion of the state. With mo ...

Ireland

Old Town, County Roscommon Old Town () is a small village in the townland of Cloonfad in County Roscommon, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is located on the R357 road (Ireland), R357 road between Ballinasloe, County Galway and Shannonbridge, County Offaly. The village p ...

Oldtown, Dublin Oldtown () is a population centre and townland in County Dublin, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. The R122 road (Ireland), R122 road runs through the village linking Balbriggan and Naul, County Dublin, Naul to St. Margaret's, County Dublin, St Mar ...

Oldtown, Letterkenny Oldtown () is a townland within the town of Letterkenny, County Donegal, Ireland. It is located in the parish of Conwal and Leck to the south of the River Swilly. As its name suggests, it is the oldest part of Letterkenny—being older than Lette ...

Jerusalem

Old City (Jerusalem) The Old City of Jerusalem (; ) is a Walls of Jerusalem, walled area in Jerusalem. In a tradition that may have begun with an 1840–41 Royal Engineers maps of Palestine, Lebanon and Syria, 1840s British map of the city, the Old City is divid ...

Kenya

Mombasa Old Town The Old Town of Mombasa, also known as Mji Wa Kale, is the old part of Mombasa, the main city of Mombasa County in Kenya. Situated on the south-east side of Mombasa Island, the Old Town covers an area of , and is inhabited by a mix of Swahili ...

, Kenya

Libya

Old Town of Ghadamès The Old town of Ghadames () is the old city of the modern city of Ghadames, Libya and one of Libya's major desert cities. Called the "''Jewel of the Desert''" the site is registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1986 The year 1986 ...

, Libya

Lithuania

Kaunas Old Town Kaunas Old Town is the oldest part of Kaunas, next to the confluence of the Nemunas and Neris rivers and Santaka Park. The Old Town had industry in the past, but it is primarily a residential, retail and leisure area in the 21st century. The ...

Vilnius Old Town The Old Town of Vilnius (), one of the largest surviving medieval old towns in Northern Europe, as inscribed within UNESCO World Heritage Sites, has an area of 3.59 square kilometres (887 acres). It encompasses 74 quarters, with 70 streets and ...

Malaysia

* Old Town, Petaling Jaya

Norway

Old Town, Oslo The Old Town of Oslo (, ) is a neighbourhood in the inner city of Oslo, Norway, belonging to the borough of Gamle Oslo and is the oldest urban area within the current capital. This part of the capital of Norway was simply called Oslo until 19 ...

Poland

* Białystok Osiedle Centrum * Bydgoszcz Old City *

Gdańsk Old Town Gdańsk is a city on the Baltic coast of northern Poland, and the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. With a population of 486,492, Data for territorial unit 2261000. it is Poland's sixth-largest city and principal seaport. Gdańsk lies at t ...

Kraków Old Town Kraków Old Town is the historic central area of Kraków, Poland.Ingrid GustafsonLet's Go: Eastern Europe Published by Macmillan, page 444. Let's Go Publications, 2008. It is one of the most famous old areas in Poland today and was the centre ...

Lublin Old Town Lublin Old Town is the historic town center of Lublin, Poland, one of the most significant Polish complexes of historic buildings. The Crown Tribunal and the 14th-century Kraków Gate, leading from the Old Town to the city center, are commonly c ...

* Opole Old Town *

Police Old Town Police Old Town is the old town (oldest historic district) of the town of Police, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Police, Poland in the Pomerania Region. Monuments There are a few interesting monuments in Police, e.g. *Brick Gothic Chapel (15th c ...

Poznań Old Town Poznań Old Town is the centermost neighbourhood of the city of Poznań in western Poland, covering the area of the once walled medieval city of Poznań. It is called ''Stare Miasto'' in Polish, although that name may also refer to the wider admi ...

Warsaw Old Town Warsaw Old Town, also known as Old Town, and historically known as Old Warsaw,''Encyklopedia Warszawy''. Warsaw: Polish Scientific Publishers PWN, 1994, p. 806. ISBN 83-01-08836-2. is a neighbourhood, and an area of the City Information System, ...

Osiedle Staromiejskie Osiedle Staromiejskie, also designated as the Neighbourhood No. 2, is a municipal neighbourhood of the city of Warsaw, Poland, located within the district of Śródmieście, and administered by a neighbourhood council. It is located within the ...

(''Neighbourhood of Old Town''), Warsaw *

Wrocław Old Town Wrocław is a city in southwestern Poland, and the capital of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. It is the largest city and historical capital of the region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the Oder River in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Eu ...

* Zamość Old City

Serbia

Old Town (Ivanjica) Ivanjica ( sr-Cyrl, Ивањица, ) is a town and municipality located in the Moravica District of southwestern Serbia. As of 2022 census, the municipality has a population of 27,767 inhabitants. With an area of 1090 km2, it is the eighth ...

Slovakia

Old Town, Bratislava The Old Town of Bratislava (, , ) is the historic center and one of the boroughs of Bratislava, in the Bratislava Region of Slovakia. It is coextensive with the smallest Slovak administrative district by area, Bratislava I. It contains the sma ...

Sri Lanka

Old Town of Galle and its Fortifications Galle (, ; , ) (formerly ) is a major city on the southwestern tip of Sri Lanka, south of Colombo. Galle is the provincial capital and largest city of Southern Province, Sri Lanka and is the capital of Galle District. Galle was known as ''Gim ...

Sweden

Old Town of Stockholm Old or OLD may refer to: Places *Old, Baranya, Hungary *Old, Northamptonshire, England *Old Street station, a railway and tube station in London (station code OLD) *OLD, IATA code for Old Town Municipal Airport and Seaplane Base, Old Town, Mai ...

Switzerland

* Old Town of Bern

Ukraine

Old Town (Lviv) Lviv's Old Town (; ) is the historic centre of the city of Lviv, within the Lviv Oblast (province) in Ukraine, recognized as a State Historic-Architectural Reserve in 1975. UNESCO Since 1998, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultur ...

United Kingdom

Old Town, Barnsley Old Town is an area of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. It is also the name of a ward of Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council is the local authority of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in Sou ...

, England *

Old Town, Chard Chard is a town and a civil parish in the English county of Somerset. It lies on the A30 road near the Devon and Dorset borders, south west of Yeovil. The parish has a population of approximately 14,000 and, at an elevation of , Chard is the s ...

, England * Old Town, Croydon, England *

Old Town, Edinburgh The Old Town () is the oldest part of Scotland's capital city of Edinburgh. The area has preserved much of its medieval street plan and many Scottish Reformation, Reformation-era buildings. Together with the 18th/19th-century New Town, Edinbur ...

, Scotland * Old Town, Isles of Scilly, England * Old Town, Mansergh, a hamlet in Mansergh, Cumbria, England * Old Town, Stevenage, England *

Old Town (Swindon ward) Old Town is an electoral ward in the Borough of Swindon, England. Since 2012, the ward has elected three councillors to Swindon Borough Council. History The ward was created in 2012. Geography The ward covers the oldest areas of original Sw ...

, electoral ward * Old Town, West Yorkshire, England

United States

* Old Town (Franklin, Tennessee) * Old Town (Key West), Florida *

Old Town (Lansing, Michigan) Located in the northern end of Lansing, Michigan, Old Town overlooks the Grand River and a winding bike trail. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government o ...

Old Town (Mississippi) Old Town was a Chickasaw village in northeast Mississippi Mississippi ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Deep South regions of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Alabama to the ...

* Old Town, Baltimore, Maryland *

Old Town, California (disambiguation) Old Town, California may refer to: *Old Town, Kern County, California *Old Town, Marin County, California *Old Town, Santa Barbara County, California *Old Town, Ventura County, California *Old Town, California, former name of Pine Town, California, ...

, several places, including: **

Old Town, Kern County, California Old Town (formerly, Williamsburg) is an unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Kern County, California, Kern County, California. It is located west-northwest of Tehachapi, California, Tehachapi, at an elevation of 3829 feet (1167 m). ...

** Old Town, Marin County, California **

Old Towne, Orange Historic District Old Towne, Orange Historic District, also known as Downtown Orange, and colloquially The Circle is a one square-mile district around Plaza Park in Orange, California, and contains many of the original structures built in the period after the c ...

in the city of Orange **

Old Town (Simonian Farms) Simonian Farms is a farm belonging to the Simonian family and is a renowned produce market and museum in Fresno, California. The produce market sells various local fruits, grains, and honey. The farm has become a local tourist attraction due to its ...

** Old Towne, a former shopping and entertainment center in Torrance * Old Town, Calhoun County, Mississippi *

Old Town, Chicago Old Town is a Neighborhoods in Chicago, neighborhood and Historic districts in the United States, historic district in Near North Side, Chicago, Near North Side and Lincoln Park, Chicago, Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois. It contains many of Chi ...

, Illinois *

Old Town, Florida Old Town is an unincorporated community in Dixie County, Florida, United States, located at US 19– ALT 27- 98 and State Road 349. The ZIP Code for Old Town is 32680. History Old Town appears on an 1874 map,Old Town, Indiana *

Old Town, Maine Old Town is a city in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. The population was 7,431 at the 2020 census. The city's developed area is chiefly located on the relatively large Marsh Island, but its boundaries extend beyond it. The island is su ...

* Old Town, North Carolina (disambiguation), several places, including: **

Old Town, Brunswick County, North Carolina Old Town is an unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) ...

Old Town, Forsyth County, North Carolina Old Town (or Oldtown) is a former unincorporated community in North Carolina which was annexed by Winston-Salem. It was located near Bethania, Tobaccoville, and Pfafftown along NC 67. The name now refers to a neighborhood that occupies the f ...

Old Town, San Diego Old Town is a neighborhood in San Diego, California. It contains and is bounded by Interstate 8 on the north, Interstate 5 on the west, Mission Hills on the east and south. It is the oldest settled area in San Diego and is the site of the f ...

, California *

Old Town, Staten Island Old Town is a neighborhood in the New York City borough (New York City), borough of Staten Island, located on its East Shore, Staten Island, East Shore. Old Town was established in August 1661 as part of New Netherland, and was the first permane ...

, New York * Old Town Albuquerque, New Mexico *

Old Town Center Historic District The Old Town Center Historic District is a historic district roughly along Locust Public Rd. and Salt Pond Road in Eastham, Massachusetts. The district encompasses Eastham's original town center, with a cluster of well-preserved 18th- and 19t ...

, Eastham, Massachusetts *

Old Town Chinatown Old Town Chinatown is the official Chinatown of the Northwest Portland, northwest section of Portland, Oregon, Portland, Oregon, United States. The Willamette River forms its eastern boundary, separating it from the Lloyd District, Portland, Oreg ...

, Portland, Oregon *

Old Town Eureka Old Town Eureka (formally the Eureka Old Town Historic District) in Eureka, California, is a historic district listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places. It is a area containing 154 buildings mostly from the Victorian e ...

, California * Old Town Fairfax, Virginia *

Old Town Pasadena Old Pasadena, often referred to as Old Town Pasadena or simply Old Town, is the original commercial center of Pasadena, a city in California, United States, and had a latter-day revitalization after a period of decay. Old Pasadena began as t ...

, California *

Oldtown, Idaho Oldtown is a city in Bonner County, Idaho and suburb of Newport, Washington, with a population of 184 at the 2010 census. It is located on the Pend Oreille River, just east of Newport. There are no natural or physical barriers, and it is str ...

* Oldtown, Kentucky * Old Town, Wichita, Kansas * Old Town (house)

Music

* "Old Town" (song), 1982 song by Phil Lynott *

Old Town Records Old Town Records was a record label set up by Hy Weiss in New York City. It operated between 1953 and 1966, and was responsible for several R&B and doo-wop hit records. Weiss, who was born in Romania, lived in the Bronx from the 1920s, and began ...

, American record label which existed 1953–1966

Transit

Old Town station (A-train) Charles Emery Old Town Station (typically shortened to Old Town) is an A-train commuter rail station in Lewisville, Texas. The station is named for Old Town Lewisville, the city's historic downtown district, which it is east of. On A-train ma ...

, Lewisville, Texas, United States *

Old Town station (Staten Island Railway) The Old Town station is a Staten Island Railway station in the neighborhood of Old Town, Staten Island, New York. History The station opened toward the beginning of 1937, likely during a grade crossing elimination project. The original name ...

, New York, United States *

Old Town Transit Center Old Town Transit Center, also known as San Diego–Old Town station, or Old Town San Diego station, is an intermodal transportation station in the Old Town neighborhood of San Diego, California. It is served by Amtrak's ''Pacific Surfliner'', t ...

, San Diego, California, United States * Old Town/Chinatown MAX Station, Portland, Oregon, United States * King Street–Old Town station, Alexandria, Virginia, United States * Oldtown railway station, Letterkenny, Ireland

Other uses

* Old Town (''A Song of Ice and Fire''), a city in the ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' series *

Old Town (amusement park) Old Town is an open-air walking district and entertainment complex, located in Kissimmee, Florida. Operating since December 1986, it is the recreation of a classic Florida town featuring historical architecture and distinctive storefronts with so ...

, in Kissimmee, Florida, USA *

The Old Town Den Gamle By (lit. "The Old Town") is an open-air town museum located in the Aarhus Botanical Gardens, in central Aarhus, Denmark. In 1914, the museum opened as the Denmark's first open-air museum of its kind, concentrating on town culture rath ...

, an open-air museum in Aarhus, Denmark