An archaeological investigation of the site of the visitors ' centre before building started revealed the foundations of the medieval precinct wall, with a gateway, and stonework discarded during manufacture, showing that the area was the site of the masons ' yard while the Abbey was being built.

The Sterntor ( star gate ) in the town centre is a reconstruction using the last remnants of the medieval city wall.

Erfurt has preserved an intact medieval city centre.

The Grossmünster in the centre of the medieval town of Zurich ( Murerplan, 1576 )

Many castles, especially royal castles were left to decay in the 15th century ; Kenilworth, however, continued to be used as a centre of choice, forming a late medieval " palace fortress ".

Barawa city was an important medieval centre of Maritime history of Somalia | Somali enterprise.

That is, excepting some medieval close-knitted streets in the centre.

In 1280, the city ( or as it was then, both cities ) joined the mercantile Hanseatic League, and thus became an important medieval trade centre.

It was the centre of the medieval trade on which it grew prosperous.

This incident and the importance of Martin in the medieval Christian West made Tours, and its position on the route of pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, a major centre during the Middle Ages.

He is considered to be one of the major figures of medieval thought and was at the centre of the major intellectual and political controversies of the fourteenth century.

The city centre is a mixture of medieval, neoclassical and art nouveau buildings, as well as ' neo-Romanian ' buildings dating from the beginning of the 20th century and a remarkable collection of modern buildings from the 1920s and 1930s.

Of the 94, 787 inhabitants of the city ( as of 1 January 2010 ), about 12, 000 live in the ancient town centre surrounded by its medieval ramparts.

Founded by Evenus, or Ewin, Evonium and its founder have been tentatively identified as Irvine, Ayrshire, a medieval power centre on the west coast of Scotland, and with Dunstaffnage, in Argyll.

The area to the NW of the city, between the centre and the Cathedral, is very rich in medieval palaces and merchants houses, many with monumental towers.

* the Collegiata di San Secondo ( 13th century ) in the old medieval centre next to the Palazzo Civico.

File: Place Champ Jacquet. JPG | Some medieval and Renaissance houses, such as these at Champ-Jacquet, can still be found in the centre of Rennes.

However, Caernarfon continued to flourish towards its present status as a major tourist centre and seat of Gwynedd Council, with a thriving harbour and marina ; Caernarfon has expanded beyond its medieval walls and experienced heavy suburbanisation.

The large medieval centre of the city is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Unlike most other major German cities, Regensburg suffered little damage from the Allied strategic bombing campaign, and the nearly intact medieval city centre is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

In early medieval times Limerick was at the centre of the Kingdom of Thomond which corresponds to the present day Mid West Region however, the Kingdom also included North Kerry and parts of South Offaly.

A number of ancient Roman, Byzantine and medieval Bulgarian buildings are preserved in the centre of the city.

During much of the later medieval period it was known colloquially by its Scots-speaking inhabitants as " St. John's Toun " or " Saint Johnstoun " because the church at the centre of the parish was dedicated to St. John the Baptist.

Known as The Lanes, the winding narrow alleyways of housing which cut through the eastern block of the city centre had not changed much at all since medieval times.

A centre for the arts, learning and philosophy, home of Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum, it is widely referred to as the cradle of Western civilization and the birthplace of democracy, largely due to the impact of its cultural and political achievements during the 5th and 4th centuries BC in later centuries on the rest of the then known European continent.

Through the reputation of its venerable founder and its position as a major European centre of learning, Columba's Iona became a place of pilgrimage.

The growing English colonies along the American seaboard to the south and various European wars between England and France during the 17th and 18th centuries brought Acadia to the centre of world-scale geopolitical forces.

Under British indirect rule, separate European ( e. g. Oyster Bay ) and African ( e. g. Kariakoo and Ilala ) areas developed at a distance from the city centre.

Since its creation in 1967, the centre has operated 60 European space missions.

The facilities at the centre, initially labelled ESDAC ( European Space Data Acquisition Centre ), were essentially a large mainframe computer or computers, which was made available both to its in-house staff and to visiting scientists and fellows who wished to use them to analyse and study the recovered data.

Since German reunification in 1990, and the accession of some Central European and Baltic States into the European Union in 2004, the Port of Hamburg has restarted ambitions for regaining its position as the region's largest deep-sea port for container shipping and its major commercial and trading centre.

London is Europe's leading centre for hedge fund managers, with 70 % of European hedge fund investments, about US $ 395 billion, at the end of 2011.

The European logistics centre is located in Dortmund, Germany, and the Asian logistics centre is located in Singapore.

In 1639 it acquired Madras on the east coast of India, where it quickly surpassed Portuguese Goa as the principal European trading centre on the Indian Subcontinent.

He employed his ten years of exile in studying politics in what was then the centre of European diplomacy, and it is memorable that his keen eye detected the inherent weakness of the second French empire beneath its imposing exterior.

He commanded the largest army, and ruled the largest and most wealthy kingdom of Europe, a kingdom which was the European centre of arts and intellectual thought ( La Sorbonne ) at the time.

* European financial and accounting centre: Łódź

After 1990, the square became the focus of attention again, as a large ( some 60 hectares ), attractive location which had suddenly become available in the centre of a major European city.

And in a statement on 10 December 2003 on behalf of the European Union, Marcello Spatafora said that " it placed human rights at the centre of the framework of principles and obligations shaping relations within the international community.

More specifically, FF was a centre right " catch all " party and later joined the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party, AN was a moderate-conservative party and eventually joined the European People's Party through The People of Freedom, and Lega Nord was supportive of a " Europe of Regions ".

In the Middle-Ages and the Renaissance, Venice was a major centre for commerce and trade, as it controlled a vast sea-empire, and became an extremely wealthy European city, a leader in political and economic affairs and a centre for trade and commerce.

Dresden was a centre of European modern art until 1933.

Dresden in the 20th century was a major communications hub and manufacturing center, as well as a leading European centre of art, classical music, culture and science until its complete destruction on 13 February 1945.

Thessaloniki is Greece's second major economic, industrial, commercial and political centre, and a major transportation hub for the rest of southeastern Europe ; its commercial port is also of great importance for Greece and the southeastern European hinterland.