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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 after thorough renovations. There are many places throughout the world referred to as the ''old town'' (and this is sometimes construed as a proper noun and capitalized). This is a list of some famous old towns:
Old Town in
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 after thorough renovations. There are many places throughout the world referred to as the ''old town'' (and this is sometimes construed as a proper noun and capitalized). This is a list of some famous old towns:
Africa
Algeria
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* Casbah of Algiers
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Egypt
Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter ...
* Medieval Cairo Medieval Cairo may refer to:
* History of Cairo during the Middle Ages
* Islamic Cairo
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, in Cairo
Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metro ...
* Old Rashid
* Saint Catherine's Monastery
Saint Catherine's Monastery ( ar, دير القدّيسة كاترين; grc-gre, Μονὴ τῆς Ἁγίας Αἰκατερίνης), officially the Sacred Autonomous Royal Monastery of Saint Katherine of the Holy and God-Trodden Mount Sinai, ...
, in Sinai
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* Mount Sinai, a mountain in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt
* Biblical Mount Sinai, the site in the Bible where Moses received the Law of God
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Kenya
*Mombasa Old Town
Old Town is an area of Mombasa, 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, Arab, Asian, Portuguese and British settlers.
In 1997, the Old Town and Fort Jesu ...
Morocco
Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to ...
* Old Meknes in Morocco
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* old Essaouira, in Morocco
* Old Fes, in Morocco
* old Marrakech, in Morocco
* Tétouan
Tétouan ( ar, تطوان, tiṭwān, ber, ⵜⵉⵟⵟⴰⵡⴰⵏ, tiṭṭawan; es, Tetuán) is a city in northern Morocco. It lies along the Martil Valley and is one of the two major ports of Morocco on the Mediterranean Sea, a few miles so ...
in Morocco
* El Jadida
El Jadida (, ; originally known in Berber as Maziɣen or Mazighen; known in Portuguese as Mazagão) is a major port city on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, located 96 km south of the city of Casablanca, in the province of El Jadida and the re ...
in Morocco
Niger
* Historic Center ofAgadez
Agadez ( Air Tamajeq: ⴰⴶⴰⴷⴰⵣ, ''Agadaz''), formerly spelled Agadès, is the fifth largest city in Niger, with a population of 110,497 based on the 2012 census. The capital of Agadez Region, it lies in the Sahara desert, and is also ...
Tanzania
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/Zanzibar
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* Stone Town
Stonetown of Zanzibar ( ar, مدينة زنجبار الحجرية), also known as Mji Mkongwe ( Swahili for "old town"), is the old part of Zanzibar City, the main city of Zanzibar, in Tanzania. The newer portion of the city is known as Ng'ambo ...
in Zanzibar City
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(World Heritage site)
Tunisia
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* Old Kairouan, in Tunisia
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* Medina of Sousse
The Medina of Sousse is a Medina quarter in Sousse, Sousse Governorate, Governorate of Sousse, Tunisia. Designated by the UNESCO a World Heritage Site in 1988, it is a typical example of the architecture of the early centuries of Islam in Maghreb.
...
in Tunisia
* Medina of Tunis
The Medina of Tunis is the medina quarter of Tunis, the capital of Tunisia. It has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979.
The Medina contains some 700 monuments, including palaces, mosques, mausoleums, madrasas and fountains dating from t ...
in Tunisia
Asia and the Pacific
Bangladesh
*Old Town in Dhaka
Dhaka ( or ; bn, ঢাকা, Ḍhākā, ), formerly known as Dacca, is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh, as well as the world's largest Bengali-speaking city. It is the eighth largest and sixth most densely populated city ...
, Old Dhaka
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China
*Forbidden City
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and Old Town remnants of Beijing
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* Mountain Resort
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temple town in Chengde
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* Old Town of Dengfeng
Dengfeng (; postal: Tengfeng) is a county-level city of Henan Province, South Central China, it is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Zhengzhou.
Dengfeng has an area of and a population of 630,000. It occupies the southw ...
* Old Town of Kaiping
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* 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 and Potala Palace
The Potala Palace is a ''dzong'' fortress in Lhasa, Tibet. It was the winter palace of the Dalai Lamas from 1649 to 1959, has been a museum since then, and a World Heritage Site since 1994.
The palace is named after Mount Potalaka, the mythica ...
of Lhasa
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* Historic Centre of Macau
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* Walled old town area of Nanjing
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* Old Town of Pingyao
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* Old Town of Qufu
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* Old Town of Suzhou
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* Historical centers of Xidi
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and Hongcun
Hongcun () is a village in Hongcun Town, Yi County, Huangshan City in the historical Huizhou region of southern Anhui Province, China, near the southwest slope of Mount Huangshan.
Together with Xidi, the village became a UNESCO World Heritage ...
* Old Town of Yinxu
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* Old Town of Zhouzhuang
Zhouzhuang (; Wu: ''Tseu-zaon'') is a town famous for its canals in Jiangsu province, China. It is located within the administrative area of Kunshan, 30 km southeast of the city centre of Suzhou.
Zhouzhuang is a popular tourist destination ...
Fiji
* Historical Port Town of LevukaIndia
* Old Town and monuments ofAgra
Agra (, ) is a city on the banks of the Yamuna river in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, about south-east of the national capital New Delhi and 330 km west of the state capital Lucknow. With a population of roughly 1.6 million, Agra is ...
* Historical center of Alchi
Alchi is a village in the Leh district of Ladakh, India. It is located in the Likir tehsil, on the banks of the Indus River 70 km downstream from the capital Leh. Unlike the other gompas in Ladakh, Alchi is situated on lowland, not on a hi ...
* Historical center of Amritsar
Amritsar (), historically also known as Rāmdāspur and colloquially as ''Ambarsar'', is the second largest city in the Indian state of Punjab, after Ludhiana. It is a major cultural, transportation and economic centre, located in the Majha r ...
* Old Delhi
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* Old Goa
Old Goa ( Konkani: ; pt, Velha Goa, translation='Old Goa') is a historical site and city situated on the southern banks of the River Mandovi, within the Tiswadi ''taluka'' (''Ilhas'') of North Goa district, in the Indian state of Goa.
The ci ...
* Historical center of Hyderabad
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* Historical ruined center of Mandu
* Historical center of Mumbai
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* Old Town and palace of Udaipur
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Indonesia
* Old Town of Jakarta, within and 4 Outlying Islands (Onrust, Kelor, Cipir dan Bidadari) *Depok Lama
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(Old Town of Depok)
* Old Town of Semarang
Semarang ( jv, ꦏꦸꦛꦯꦼꦩꦫꦁ , Pegon: سماراڠ) is the capital and largest city of Central Java province in Indonesia. It was a major port during the Dutch colonial era, and is still an important regional center and port today. ...
* Historic City of Surabaya
Surabaya ( jv, ꦱꦸꦫꦧꦪ or jv, ꦯꦹꦫꦨꦪ; ; ) is the capital city of the Provinces of Indonesia, Indonesian province of East Java and the List of Indonesian cities by population, second-largest city in Indonesia, after Jakarta. L ...
* Historic Town of Bandung
Bandung ( su, ᮘᮔ᮪ᮓᮥᮀ, Bandung, ; ) is the capital city of the Indonesian province of West Java. It has a population of 2,452,943 within its city limits according to the official estimates as at mid 2021, making it the fourth most ...
* Historic Town of Medan
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* Historic Monuments of City of Ternate
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* Historic Monuments of Banda Neira
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* Historic Monuments of City Of Tidore
Tidore ( id, Kota Tidore Kepulauan, lit. "City of Tidore Islands") is a city, island, and archipelago in the Maluku Islands of eastern Indonesia, west of the larger island of Halmahera. Part of North Maluku Province, the city includes the island ...
* Historic Center of City of Yogyakarta
Yogyakarta (; jv, ꦔꦪꦺꦴꦒꦾꦏꦂꦠ ; pey, Jogjakarta) is the capital city of Special Region of Yogyakarta in Indonesia, in the south-central part of the island of Java. As the only Indonesian royal city still ruled by a monarchy, ...
* Old Mining Town Of Sawahlunto
Sawahlunto (Jawi script, Jawi: ) is a city in West Sumatra, Western Sumatra province, Indonesia, and lies 90 kilometres (a 2-hour drive) from Padang, the provincial capital. Sawahlunto is known as the site for the oldest coal mining site in Southe ...
* Old Town of Padang
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* Old City of Bukittinggi
Bukittinggi ( min, Bukiktinggi, Jawi: , formerly nl, Fort de Kock) is the third largest city in West Sumatra, Indonesia, with a population of 111,312 in 2010 and 121,028 in 2020, and an area of 25.24 km2. It is in the Minangkabau Highlands ...
* Historic District of Lasem
* Historic Center of Solo
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(Surakarta
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* Historic Town of Cirebon
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* Ancient City of Banten
* Historic Center of Palembang
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* Historic City of Tegal
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* Historic Town of Bogor
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UNESCO
* UNESCO
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*UNESCO World Heritage old towns in Italy:
**Assisi (Umbria)
**Ferrara (Emilia-Romagna)
**Florence (Tuscany)
**Genoa (Liguria)
**Mantua (Lombardy)
**Modena (Emilia-Romagna)
**Naples (Campania)
**Pienza (Tuscany)
**Pisa (Tuscany)
**Ravenna (Emilia-Romagna)
**Rome (Lazio)
**San Gimignano (Tuscany)
**Siena (Tuscany)
**Syracuse, Sicily, Siracusa (Sicily)
**Urbino (Marche)
**Venice (Veneto)
**Verona (Veneto)
**Vicenza (Veneto)
I Borghi più belli d'Italia is an association of small Italian towns of historical interest.
Other notable old towns include:
*Northern Italy
**Bassano del Grappa (Veneto)
**Bergamo (Lombardy)
**Bologna (Emilia-Romagna)
**Bolzano (Trentino-Alto Adige)
**Castelfranco Veneto (Veneto)
**Chioggia (Veneto)
**Cittadella (Veneto)
**Milan (Lombardy)
**Palmanova (Friuli-Venezia Giulia)
**Parma (Emilia-Romagna)
**Pavia (Lombardy)
**Polcenigo (Friuli-Venezia Giulia)
**Sacile (Friuli-Venezia Giulia)
**Trento (Trentino-Alto Adige)
**Treviso (Veneto)
**Trieste (Friuli-Venezia Giulia)
**Turin (Piedmont)
**Udine (Friuli-Venezia Giulia)
**Vittorio Veneto (Veneto)
*Central Italy
**Ancona (Marche)
**Arezzo (Tuscany)
**Camerino (Marche)
**Colle di Val d'Elsa (Tuscany)
**Gubbio (Umbria)
**Loreto, Marche, Loreto (Marche)
**Lucca (Tuscany)
**Massa Marittima (Tuscany)
**Montalcino (Tuscany)
**Montefiascone (Lazio)
**Monteleone di Spoleto (Umbria)
**Montepulciano (Tuscany)
**Orvieto (Umbria)
**Perugia (Umbria)
**Tivoli, Lazio, Tivoli (Lazio)
**Viterbo (Lazio)
**Volterra(Tuscany)
*Southern Italy
**Bari (Apulia)
**Catania (Sicily)
**Ostuni (Apulia)
**Trani (Apulia)
**Martina Franca (Apulia)
**Monopoli (Apulia)
**Lecce (Apulia)
**Palermo (Sicily)
**Cefalù (Sicily)
**Salerno (Campania)
**Maratea (Basilicata)
**Tropea (Calabria)
**Benevento (Campania)
**Gallipoli (Apulia)
**Erice (Sicily)
* Kraków Old Town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
* Warsaw Old Town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
* Old City of Zamość, UNESCO World Heritage Site
* Medieval Town of Toruń, UNESCO World Heritage Site
* Poznań Old Town
* Old town of Chełmno
* Old town of Sandomierz
* Old town in Gdańsk
* Old town in Lublin
* Old town in Przemyśl
* Old town of Szczecin
* Old town of Stargard Szczeciński
* Old town of Trzebiatów
* Wrocław Old Town, Old town of Wrocław
* Police Old Town
* Old town of Nowe Warpno
* Historic Center of Olinda
* Historic Center (Salvador), Historic Center of Salvador, Bahia, Salvador, also known as ''Pelourinho''
* Historic Center of São Luís, Maranhão, São Luis
* Historic Center of Diamantina, Minas Gerais
* Centro, Rio de Janeiro, Centro, in Rio de Janeiro
* Sé (district of São Paulo), Sé, in the Central Zone of São Paulo
Kyoto
Kyoto (; Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in Japan. Located in the Kansai region on the island of Honshu, Kyoto forms a part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kobe. , the ci ...
* Historic remnants of old Nara
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* Historic remnants of old Nikkō
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* Historic centers of Shirakawa-gō and Gokayama
Malaysia
* Core heritage zone in George Town, aWorld Heritage Site
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* Old Town in Ipoh
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* Old Town in Petaling Jaya
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Pakistan
*Walled City of Lahore
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Philippines
Philippines as the former colony of Spain has numerous heritage structures, most notably in: * Old Town remnants ofIntramuros
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Present-day I ...
in Manila
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* Old Town of Vigan
Vigan, officially the City of Vigan ( ilo, Siudad ti Vigan; fil, Lungsod ng Vigan), is a 4th class component city and capital of the province of Ilocos Sur, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 53,935 people.
Loc ...
* Old Town of Malolos
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* Old Town of San Fernando
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*Ferdinand III of Castile (c. 1200–1252), called ''San Fernando'' (Spanish) or ''Saint Ferdinand'', King of Castile, León, and Galicia
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* Old Town of Pila
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* Old Town of Taal
* Old Town of Balayan
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The town is rich among the natu ...
* Old Town of Baclayon
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* Old Town of Iloilo
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* Old Town of Laoag
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* Old Town of Loboc
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Located ea ...
* Old Town of Carcar
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* Old Town of Silay
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* Old Town of Baclayon
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* Old Town of Dapitan
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South Korea
* Bukchon Hanok Village
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(Seoul
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* Insa-dong
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(Seoul)
* Nampo-dong
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(Busan
Busan (), officially known as is South Korea's most populous city after Seoul, with a population of over 3.4 million inhabitants. Formerly romanized as Pusan, it is the economic, cultural and educational center of southeastern South Korea, w ...
)
* Hahoe Folk Village
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The village i ...
(Andong
Andong () is a city in South Korea, and the capital of North Gyeongsang Province. It is the largest city in the northern part of the province with a population of 167,821 as of October 2010. The Nakdong River flows through the city. Andong is a m ...
)
* Yangdong Folk Village
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(Gyeongju
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Syria
*Ancient City ofDamascus
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*Ancient City of Aleppo
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Thailand
*Rattanakosin Island
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of Bangkok
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*Talat Noi
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and Song Wat Road
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of Bangkok
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of Bangkok
* Ban Sing Tha of Yasothon
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*Old Phuket Town
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of Phuket
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*Chak Ngaeo Chak Ngaeo or Ban Chak Ngaeo (or spelled: ''Chakngeaw''; th, ชากแง้ว, บ้านชากแง้ว; lit: ''Chak Ngaeo Village''; zh, 茶格; pinyin: ''Chá gé'') is a community and village located in Tambon Huai Yai, Bang Lamun ...
of Chonburi
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of Chanthaburi
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The town covers t ...
* Chiang Khan of Loei
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*Chum Saeng
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* CHUM Chart, a C ...
of Nakhon Sawan
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* Tha Chalom of Samut Sakhon
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Uzbekistan
*Tashkent
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* Khiva
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Vietnam
* Old Town ofHanoi
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* Old Town of Hội An
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* Old Town of Huế
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Europe
Austria
UNESCO World Heritage
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old towns in Austria:
*Graz
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(Styria)
*Krems an der Donau
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(Lower Austria)
*Salzburg
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The town is on the site of the ...
(Salzburg), Altstadt Salzburg
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*Vienna
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Other notable/famous old towns include:
*Hall in Tirol
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(Tyrol)
*Innsbruck
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(Tyrol)
*Linz
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In 2009, it was a European Capital of ...
(Upper Austria)
*Steyr
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(Upper Austria)
*Klagenfurt am Wörthersee
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(Carinthia)
Belgium
*Antwerp
Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504,
*Arlon
Arlon (; lb, Arel ; nl, Aarlen ; german: Arel ; wa, Årlon; la, Orolaunum) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in and capital of the province of Luxembourg in the Ardennes, Belgium. With a population of just over 28,000, it is t ...
*Binche
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*Bruges
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*Brussels
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*Dendermonde
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*Dinant
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*Durbuy
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The total area is 156.61 km², consisting of the following districts: Barvaux, Bende, Bomal, Borlon, Durbuy, Grandhan, Heyd, Izie ...
*Ghent
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*Leuven
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*Liège
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The city is situated in the valley of the Meuse, in the east of Belgium, not far from b ...
* Lier
*Mechelen
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*Mons
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Mons was made into a fortified city by Count Baldwin IV of Hainaut in the 12th century. T ...
*Namur
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Namu ...
*Thuin
Thuin ( or ; wa, Twin) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.
The municipality consists of the following districts: Biercée, Biesme-sous-Thuin, Donstiennes, Gozée, Leers-et-Fosteau, Ragnies, ...
*Tournai
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*Ypres
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the Dutch name is the official one, the city's French name is most commonly used in English. The municipality co ...
Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Historic Center ofSarajevo
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* Stari Most
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(Old City of Mostar)
* City of Višegrad
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Bulgaria
*Old Town
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in Plovdiv
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*Old Town in Lovech
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*Old Town in Nessebur
Croatia
*Old Town ofDubrovnik
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, UNESCO World Heritage Site
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*Old Town of Split
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* Split Island, Canada, an island in the Hudson Bay
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with Diocletian's Palace
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, UNESCO World Heritage Site
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*Old Town of Trogir
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, UNESCO World Heritage Site
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*Old Town of Varaždin
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* Gradec and Kaptol, twin old towns of Zagreb
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Czech Republic
* Staré Město inPrague
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* Vnitřní město in Český Krumlov
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, UNESCO World Heritage Site
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* Vnitřní město in Kutná Hora
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, UNESCO World Heritage Site
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* Vnitřní město in Telč
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, UNESCO World Heritage Site
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Cyprus
*Walled city ofNicosia
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*Walled city of Famagusta
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*Old town of Limassol
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*Old town of Paphos also traditionally known as Ktima. Not to be confused with Nea Paphos a World Heritage Site
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*Old town of Larnaca
Denmark
* The Old Town, Aarhus, Den Gamle By in AarhusEstonia
* Old Town (Vanalinn) of Narva * Old Town (Vanalinn) of Tallinn,UNESCO World Heritage Site
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* Old Town (Vanalinn) of Tartu
Finland
* Old Town (Vanhakaupunki) of Porvoo * Vanhakaupunki in HelsinkiFrance
The equivalent of "Old Town" in French is ''vieille ville'', although the more formal ''centre historique'' ("historical center") is usually written on road signs. UNESCOWorld Heritage
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old towns in France:
*Albi (Tarn (department), Tarn)
*Avignon (Vaucluse)
*Bordeaux (Gironde)
*Carcassonne (Aude)
*Lyon (Rhône (department), Rhône)
*Provins (Seine-et-Marne)
*Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin)
Other notable/famous old towns include:
*Auxerre (Yonne)
*Besançon (Doubs)
*Lille (Nord (French department), Nord)
*Montpellier (Hérault)
*Nice (Alpes-Maritimes)
*Paris (Ile de France)
*Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine)
*Rouen (Seine-Maritime)
*Saint-Malo (Ille-et-Vilaine)
*Toulouse (Haute-Garonne)
Georgia
* Old Tbilisi (Dzveli Tbilisi) in Tbilisi * Historical Center in Mtskheta,UNESCO World Heritage Site
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* Old Town in Kutaisi
* Old Town in Batumi
Germany
* UNESCO World Heritage
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old towns in Germany:
**Bamberg (Franconia)
**Goslar (Lower Saxony)
**Lübeck (Schleswig-Holstein)
**Quedlinburg (Saxony-Anhalt)
**Regensburg (Bavaria)
**Stralsund (Western Pomerania)
**Wismar (Mecklenburg)
Other notable/famous old towns include:
*Northern Germany:
**Bad Doberan (Mecklenburg)
**Binz (Western Pomerania)
**Celle (Lower Saxony)
**Eckernförde (Schleswig)
**Flensburg (Schleswig)
**Friedrichstadt (Schleswig)
**Güstrow (Mecklenburg)
**Hamelin (Lower Saxony)
**Hann. Münden (Lower Saxony)
**Heringsdorf (Western Pomerania)
**Lüneburg (Lower Saxony)
**Neustrelitz (Mecklenburg)
**Putbus (Western Pomerania)
**Ratzeburg (Holstein)
**Schwerin (Mecklenburg)
**Stade (Lower Saxony)
**Waren (Müritz), Waren (Mecklenburg)
**Wolfenbüttel (Lower Saxony)
*Eastern Germany:
**Bautzen (Lusatia)
**Erfurt (Thuringia)
**Görlitz (Silesia)
**Meißen, Meissen (Saxony)
**Pirna (Saxony)
**Stolberg (Harz), Stolberg (Saxony-Anhalt)
**Weimar (Thuringia)
**Wernigerode (Saxony-Anhalt)
*Southern Germany:
**Baden-Baden (Baden)
**Dinkelsbühl (Bavaria)
**Freiburg im Breisgau, Freiburg (Baden)
**Füssen (Bavaria)
**Heidelberg (Baden)
**Konstanz (Swabia)
**Landshut (Bavaria)
**Lindau (Bavaria)
**Nuremberg (Franconia)
**Ravensburg (Swabia)
**Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Rothenburg (Bavaria)
**Schwäbisch Hall (Swabia)
**Tübingen (Swabia)
**Würzburg (Franconia)
*Western Germany:
**Bacharach (Rhineland-Palatinate)
**Beilstein, Rhineland-Palatinate, Beilstein (Rhineland)
**Bernkastel-Kues (Rhineland)
**Cochem (Rhineland-Palatinate)
**Hattingen (North Rhine-Westphalia)
**Landau (Palatinate)
**Lemgo (Westphalia)
**Limburg an der Lahn, Limburg (Hesse)
**Linz am Rhein (Rheinland)
**Marburg (Hesse)
**Monschau (Rhineland)
**Montabaur (Rhineland-Palatinate)
**Rüdesheim am Rhein, Rüdesheim (Hesse)
**Soest, Germany, Soest (North Rhine-Westphalia)
**Trier (Rhineland-Palatinate)
**Wetzlar(Hesse)
**Xanten (Rhineland)
Greece
* Old Town in Rhodes, Greece, Rhodes,UNESCO World Heritage Site
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* Old Town of Corfu (city), UNESCO World Heritage Site
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* Old Town of Hania
*Nafplio
* Plaka, Athens, Athina
Italy
FIle:Assisi-skyline.jpg, Skyline of Assisi
*UNESCO World Heritage old towns in Italy:
**Assisi (Umbria)
**Ferrara (Emilia-Romagna)
**Florence (Tuscany)
**Genoa (Liguria)
**Mantua (Lombardy)
**Modena (Emilia-Romagna)
**Naples (Campania)
**Pienza (Tuscany)
**Pisa (Tuscany)
**Ravenna (Emilia-Romagna)
**Rome (Lazio)
**San Gimignano (Tuscany)
**Siena (Tuscany)
**Syracuse, Sicily, Siracusa (Sicily)
**Urbino (Marche)
**Venice (Veneto)
**Verona (Veneto)
**Vicenza (Veneto)
I Borghi più belli d'Italia is an association of small Italian towns of historical interest.
Other notable old towns include:
*Northern Italy
**Bassano del Grappa (Veneto)
**Bergamo (Lombardy)
**Bologna (Emilia-Romagna)
**Bolzano (Trentino-Alto Adige)
**Castelfranco Veneto (Veneto)
**Chioggia (Veneto)
**Cittadella (Veneto)
**Milan (Lombardy)
**Palmanova (Friuli-Venezia Giulia)
**Parma (Emilia-Romagna)
**Pavia (Lombardy)
**Polcenigo (Friuli-Venezia Giulia)
**Sacile (Friuli-Venezia Giulia)
**Trento (Trentino-Alto Adige)
**Treviso (Veneto)
**Trieste (Friuli-Venezia Giulia)
**Turin (Piedmont)
**Udine (Friuli-Venezia Giulia)
**Vittorio Veneto (Veneto)
*Central Italy
**Ancona (Marche)
**Arezzo (Tuscany)
**Camerino (Marche)
**Colle di Val d'Elsa (Tuscany)
**Gubbio (Umbria)
**Loreto, Marche, Loreto (Marche)
**Lucca (Tuscany)
**Massa Marittima (Tuscany)
**Montalcino (Tuscany)
**Montefiascone (Lazio)
**Monteleone di Spoleto (Umbria)
**Montepulciano (Tuscany)
**Orvieto (Umbria)
**Perugia (Umbria)
**Tivoli, Lazio, Tivoli (Lazio)
**Viterbo (Lazio)
**Volterra(Tuscany)
*Southern Italy
**Bari (Apulia)
**Catania (Sicily)
**Ostuni (Apulia)
**Trani (Apulia)
**Martina Franca (Apulia)
**Monopoli (Apulia)
**Lecce (Apulia)
**Palermo (Sicily)
**Cefalù (Sicily)
**Salerno (Campania)
**Maratea (Basilicata)
**Tropea (Calabria)
**Benevento (Campania)
**Gallipoli (Apulia)
**Erice (Sicily)
Latvia
* Vecrīga in Riga,UNESCO World Heritage Site
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Lithuania
* Vilnius Old Town, Senamiestis in Vilnius (a part of UNESCO Heritage Site, UNESCO) * Kaunas Old Town, Senamiestis in Kaunas * Klaipėda Old Town, Senamiestis in Klaipėda * Trakai Old Town, Senamiestis in TrakaiMontenegro
* Old Town of Kotor, aWorld Heritage Site
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* Old Town of Budva
* Old Town of Herceg Novi
* Stara Varoš (Podgorica)
* Stari Bar
Netherlands
The standard term for 'Old Town' in the Netherlands is "binnenstad", which translates as "innercity", i.e. in city on the inside of the city walls. * Oude Stad in Nijmegen * Oude Stad (Tilburg)Norway
* Old Town, OsloPoland
* Kraków Old Town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
* Warsaw Old Town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
* Old City of Zamość, UNESCO World Heritage Site
* Medieval Town of Toruń, UNESCO World Heritage Site
* Poznań Old Town
* Old town of Chełmno
* Old town of Sandomierz
* Old town in Gdańsk
* Old town in Lublin
* Old town in Przemyśl
* Old town of Szczecin
* Old town of Stargard Szczeciński
* Old town of Trzebiatów
* Wrocław Old Town, Old town of Wrocław
* Police Old Town
* Old town of Nowe Warpno
Portugal
*Old town in Póvoa de Varzim, named "old town" (Vila Velha) since 1343. *Old town in Oporto *Old town in Guimarães *Óbidos, Portugal walled city *Old town in Évora *Old town in LisboaRomania
* Old town of Arad, Romania, Arad * Old town of Botoșani * Old town of Brașov * Old town of Brăila * Old town of Bucharest * Old town of Cluj Napoca * Old town of Constanța * Old town of Craiova * Old town of Oradea * Old town of Sibiu, a UNESCO World Heritage Site * Historic Centre of Sighișoara, Old town of Sighișoara, a UNESCO World Heritage Site * Old town of TimișoaraSerbia
* Stari Grad, Novi Sad, Stari Grad, a neighborhood in Novi Sad * Petrovaradin suburb * Old Town (Sremski Karlovci), Stari Grad, Sremski Karlovci - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance * Old Town (Kikinda), Stari Grad, Kikinda - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance * Old Town (Zrenjanin), Stari Grad, Zrenjanin - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance * Old Town (Bečej), Stari Grad, Bečej - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance * Old Town (Sombor), Stari Grad, Sombor - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance * Old Town (Pančevo), Stari Grad, Pančevo - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance * Old Town (Subotica), Stari Grad, Subotica - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance * Old Town (Pančevo), Stari Grad, Sremska Mitrovica - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance * Old Town (Zemun), Stari Grad, Zemun - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance * Stari Grad, Belgrade, Stari Grad, a municipality in Belgrade * Old Town (Grocka), Stara čaršija, Grocka, Belgrade - Two quarters of Old City are a Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance * Tešnjar, Valjevo - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance * Old Town (Novi Pazar), Stara čaršija, Novi Pazar - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance * Stari Grad, Kragujevac, Stari Grad, a municipality in Kragujevac * Stari Grad, Užice, Stari Grad, the remains of a fort in Užice * Old Town (Ivanjica), Stari Grad, Ivanjica - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance * Old Town (Negotin), Stari Grad, Negotin - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importanceSlovakia
* Old Town, Bratislava, Staré Mesto in Bratislava * Old Town, Košice, Staré Mesto in KošiceSpain
* UNESCOWorld Heritage
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old towns in Spain:
** Alcalá de Henares (Madrid)
** Ávila, Spain, Ávila (Castile and León)
** Baeza, Spain, Baeza (Andalusia)
** Cáceres, Spain, Cáceres (Extremadura)
** Córdoba, Andalusia, Córdoba (Andalusia)
** Cuenca, Spain, Cuenca (Castile-La Mancha)
** Salamanca (Castile and León)
** San Cristóbal de La Laguna (Canary Islands)
** Santiago de Compostela (Galicia)
** Segovia (Castile and León)
** Toledo, Spain, Toledo (Castile-La Mancha)
** Úbeda (Andalusia)
Other notable/famous old towns include:
* Almagro, Ciudad Real, Almagro (Castile-La Mancha)
* Andújar (Andalusia)
* Avilés (Asturias)
* Bilbao (Basque Country)
* Burgos (Castile and León)
* Cádiz (Andalusia)
* Girona (Catalonia)
* Granada (Andalusia)
* Hondarribia (Basque Country)
* Ibiza Town, Ibiza (Balearic Islands)
* Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Canary Islands)
* León, Spain, León (Castile and León)
* Lorca, Spain, Lorca (Murcia)
* Lugo (Galicia)
* Madrid (Madrid)
* Ourense (Galicia)
* Oviedo (Asturias)
* Palma de Mallorca (Balearic Islands)
* Pamplona (Navarre)
* Peniscola (Valencian Community)
* Pontevedra (Galicia)
* Priego de Córdoba (Andalusia)
* San Sebastián (Basque Country)
* San Roque, Cádiz, San Roque (Andalusia)
* Sanlúcar de Barrameda (Andalusia)
* Seville (Andalusia)
* Solsona, Lleida, Solsona (Catalonia)
* Tafalla (Navarre)
* Tarragona (Catalonia)
* Teruel (Aragón)
* Toro, Zamora, Toro (Castile and León)
* Trujillo, Cáceres, Trujillo (Extremadura)
* Tudela, Navarre, Tudela (Navarre)
* Vitoria-Gasteiz (Basque Country)
* Zamora, Spain, Zamora (Castile and León)
Sweden
* Gamla staden, Malmö * Gamla stan, Stockholm * Gamlestaden, Gothenburg * Gammelstaden, Luleå Municipality * Visby, Region Gotland, UNESCOWorld Heritage Site,Switzerland
* Old City (Bern), Bern, UNESCO World Heritage Site * Altstadt (Zürich), Zürich, District 1Turkey
* Istanbul, Historic Peninsula (Fatih district) * Ankara, Historic city center (Altındağ, Ankara, Altındağ district) * Amasya, Historic city centerUkraine
* Old Town (Lviv), Stare Misto in Lviv * Old KyivUnited Kingdom
England
* UNESCO World Heritage old towns in England: ** Bath, Somerset, City of Bath ** Greenwich#World heritage site, Maritime Greenwich ** Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City * Old Town, Barnsley * Old Town, Chard * Old Town, Croydon * Old Town, Cumbria * Old Town, Eastbourne * Hastings Old Town, Old Town, Hastings * Old Town, Isles of Scilly * Old Town, Kingston upon Hull * Old Town, Northumberland * Old Town, Southampton, a district of the city of Southampton * Old Town, Swindon * Old Town, West YorkshireScotland
* Old Town, Edinburgh, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, along with the New Town, EdinburghOverseas territories
* UNESCO World Heritage Site: Historic Town of St George and Related Fortifications, Bermuda, Historic Town of St George, Bermuda, a UNESCO World Heritage SiteMiddle East
Israel and Palestinian territories, Palestine
* Old City of Jerusalem * Old City of Acre, Israel, Acre * Old City of Beersheba * Old City of Haifa * Old City (Jaffa), Old Jaffa * Old City of Nazareth * Old City of Bethlehem * Old City of Ramle * Old City of Hebron * Old City of Nablus * Old City of Tiberias * Old City of Safed * Old City of Lod, LyddaLebanon
* Byblos, Old Byblos * Sidon, Old Sidon * Tripoli, Lebanon, Old Tripoli * Tyre, Lebanon, Old Tyre * Beirut Central District * Batroun, Old Batroun * Deir el Qamar * RachayaSaudi Arabia
* Diriyah in RiyadhSyria
*Ancient City of Aleppo
The Ancient City of Aleppo ( ar, مدينة حلب القديمة, Madīnat Ḥalab al-Qadīma) is the historic city centre of Aleppo, Syria. Before the Syrian Civil War, many districts of the ancient city remained essentially unchanged since it ...
, in Syria
* Ancient City of Bosra, in Syria
* Ancient City of Damascus in Syria
Yemen
* Old City of Sana'a in Yemen * Old Walled City of Shibam in Yemen * Zabīd in YemenNorth America
Canada
*Old Quebec, Historic District of Old Quebec, Quebec, a UNESCO World Heritage Site *Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Old Town Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site *Old Montreal, Quebec *Old Town, Toronto, OntarioCuba
* Old HavanaDominican Republic
* Ciudad Colonial (Santo Domingo), Ciudad Colonial in Santo Domingo, oldest European city in America,UNESCO World Heritage Site
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Mexico
*Historic center of Mexico City, Mexico City, a UNESCOWorld Heritage Site
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*Guanajuato City, Guanajuato, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
*Morelia, Michoacán, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
*Oaxaca City, Oaxaca, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
*Zacatecas City, Zacatecas, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
*Queretaro City, Querétaro
*Campeche City, Campeche, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
*Tlacotalpan, Veracruz, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
*San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Panama
* Panamá Viejo, a UNESCO World Heritage SitePuerto Rico
* Old San Juan,UNESCO World Heritage Site
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, U.S. National Register of Historic Places
United States
California
*Old Town Eureka, California an original 19th Century Victorian commercial district in Eureka, California *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, in Lassen County * Old Town Pasadena, California * Old Sacramento State Historic Park, Sacramento, California * Old Town San Diego State Historic Park, San Diego, California * Old Town, San Diego, a neighborhood of San DiegoFlorida
* Old Town, Florida, a town in Dixie County, not to be confused with the one in Orlando * Original Town of Fernandina Historic Site, Old Town Fernandina, Fernandina Beach, Florida; the last town in the Western Hemisphere to be platted according to the Spanish "Law of the Indies" in 1811; named for King Ferdinand VII * Old Town, Key West, the historic section of the city of Key West, Florida * Old Town (amusement park), Old Town, an amusement park/shopping center in Kissimmee, FloridaNorth Carolina
* Old Town, Brunswick County, North Carolina * Old Town, Forsyth County, North Carolina * Old Town Township, Forsyth County, North CarolinaTennessee
*Old Town (Franklin, Tennessee) a location along the Natchez Trace named for the Mississippian mound complex there **Old Town (Mississippian culture mound complex), Franklin, Tennessee *Thomas Brown House (Franklin, Tennessee), also known as ''Old Town'', NRHP-listedOther US states
*Scottsdale, AZ, Old Town Scottsdale, Arizona * Old Town, Augusta, Georgia * Old Town, Chicago, Illinois * Old Town, Indiana * Old Town, Wichita, Kansas * Old Town, Maine, a city * Olde Towne Gaithersburg, Maryland * Old Town (Lansing, Michigan), Old Town Lansing, Michigan, Lansing, Michigan * Old Town Albuquerque, New Mexico * Old Town, Staten Island, New York * Old Town Chinatown, Portland, Oregon, Old Town Chinatown, Portland, Oregon * Old Town Fairfax, Virginia * Old Town Alexandria, Virginia * Old Town Manassas, Virginia * Olde Towne Portsmouth, Virginia, Portsmouth, VirginiaSouth America
Argentina
* San Telmo and La Boca in Buenos AiresBrazil
Northeast
* Historic Center of Olinda
* Historic Center (Salvador), Historic Center of Salvador, Bahia, Salvador, also known as ''Pelourinho''
* Historic Center of São Luís, Maranhão, São Luis
Center-West
* Historic Center of Goiás, GoiásSoutheast
* Historic Center of Diamantina, Minas Gerais
* Centro, Rio de Janeiro, Centro, in Rio de Janeiro
* Sé (district of São Paulo), Sé, in the Central Zone of São Paulo
South
* Centro Histórico, Porto Alegre, Centro Histórico, in Porto AlegreColombia
* La Candelaria, a historic neighborhood in downtown BogotáEcuador
* Quito#Historic center, Quito´s Historic CenterUruguay
* Ciudad Vieja, Montevideo, Ciudad Vieja in Montevideo, "Old City" is the name of the oldest part of the cityOther uses
* The Girls of Old Town, a group of prostitutes in the comic series ''Sin City'' * Old Town (song), a song by Phil Lynott, later covered by the CorrsSee also
* Altstadt * Eskişehir, "Old City" in Turkish * Old City (disambiguation) * Oldtown (disambiguation) * Stare Miasto (disambiguation), "Old Town" in Polish * Stari Grad (disambiguation), means "Old Town"References
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