The Bible describes Jesus ' tomb as being outside the city wall, as was normal for burials across the ancient world, which were regarded as unclean, but the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is in the heart of Hadrian's city, well within the Old City walls, which were built by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent in 1538 Some have claimed that the city had been much narrower in Jesus ' time, with the site then having been outside the walls ; since Herod Agrippa ( 41 – 44 ) is recorded by history as extending the city to the north ( beyond the present northern walls ), the required repositioning of the western wall is traditionally attributed to him as well.

City walls are a minor addition to Cities and Knights that increase the number of resource and commodity cards a player is allowed in their hand before having to discard on a roll of 7.

In 1527 a statute recorded in Galway City in Ireland stated, " At no time to use ne occupy ye hurling of ye litill balle with the hookie sticks or staves, nor use no hand balle to play without the walls, but only the great foot balle.

The site for constructing the walls and the thickness of the walls in Beijing's Forbidden City were favored by the Chinese Yongle Emperor ( r. 1402 – 1424 ), because they were in pristine position to resist cannon volley and were built thick enough to withstand attacks from cannon fire.

Suleiman also restored the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem and the Jerusalem city walls ( which are the current walls of the Old City of Jerusalem ), renovated the Kaaba in Mecca, and constructed a complex in Damascus.

City walls and Leaning Tower

In Part II, Lady Rectitude says she will help Christine “ construct the houses and buildings inside the walls of the City of Ladies ” and fill it with inhabitants who are “ valiant ladies of great renown ”.

The district enclosed by the walls is still known as the Leonine City.

Schindler's grave is located on the mountainside below Zion Gate and the Old City walls.

Serdica ( Sardica ) expanded, as turrets, protective walls, public baths, administrative and cult buildings, a civic basilica, an amphitheatre – the City Council ( Boulé ), a large Forum, a big Circus ( Theatre ), etc.

Construction of the Périphérique was begun in 1958 on the former site of the Thiers Wall ( the last remaining of the City walls of Paris ).

The song of Ascents appears in Hebrew and English on the walls at the entrance to the City of David, Jerusalem, Israel.

Pool of Siloam () ( Breikhat Hashiloah ) is a rock-cut pool on the southern slope of the City of David, the original site of Jerusalem, located outside the walls of the Old City to the southeast.

During the reign of Hezekiah, the walls of the city were expanded westward, enclosing a previously unwalled suburb in the area now known as the Old City of Jerusalem, west of the Temple Mount.

Modern settlement on the ridge began in the City of David in 1873-1874, when the Meyuchas family, a Jewish rabbinical and merchant family that had lived in Jerusalem since their expulsion from Spain, moved a short distance outside the city walls to a house on the ridge.

* Ancient city walls around the City of David

City walls of Buitrago del Lozoya

City walls of Grudziądz, the southern side, 14th / 15th century

In the Middle Ages Finsbury was part of the great fen which lay outside the walls of the City of London.

But the " Burnt City " of his second stratum, revealed in 1873, with its fortifications and vases, and a hoard of gold, silver and bronze objects, which the discoverer connected with it, began to arouse a curiosity which was destined presently to spread far outside the narrow circle of scholars.

* City fortifications, begun in the 13th century, extended between the 14th and 15th centuries, mostly demolished in the 19th century, but partially preserved with a few city gates and watchtowers ( among them the so-called Leaning Tower ) from the Vistula side.

** The addition of a new section of the Outer City fortifications is completed in southern Beijing, bringing the overall size of Beijing to 18 square miles ( 4662 hectares ).

Instead the papacy confined itself ( see Prisoner in the Vatican ) to the Apostolic Palace and adjacent buildings in the loop of the ancient fortifications known as the Leonine City, on Vatican Hill.

But the " Burnt City " of his second stratum, revealed in 1873, with its fortifications and vases, and a hoard of gold, silver and bronze objects, which the discoverer connected with it, began to arouse a curiosity which was destined presently to spread far outside the narrow circle of scholars.

The Maltese coat-of-arms bears a mural crown described as " representing the fortifications of Malta and denoting a City State ".

City walls are fortifications but not necessarily called fortresses.

This citadel is part of the fortifications of Quebec City.

Directly after capturing Fort Stedman and its artillery, Confederate soldiers would move north and south along the Union lines to clear the neighboring fortifications and make way for the main attack, which would lead to the main Union supply base of City Point ( also Grant's headquarters ), ten miles ( 16 km ) northeast on the Appomattox River.

To check the inroads of both the increasingly bloody Tausug pirate raids and the growing influence of Lamitan's Yakan kingdom, as well as to thwart any further attempt by other European powers to colonize Basilan ( the Dutch in 1747 and the French in 1844 ) the Spanish commandery in Zamboanga City sent over an expeditionary force tasked at establishing Spanish fortifications on Basilan island, both to serve as an early beacon and defensive perimeter against the pirate parties, and as a trading post for Spanish interests on the island.

When he became of legal age, Molson used the money inherited from his parents to acquire a small brewery housed in a wooden building on the shores of the St Lawrence, just outside the fortifications of the burgeoning City of Montreal.

He was instrumental in stopping the demolition of the fortifications of Quebec City, and he was the first public official to call for the creation of a park on the lands next to Niagara Falls.

The 1950s also marked the beginning of the " big project " era, which reached its apogee in the 1960s, in which the federal government invested significant funds in the restoration and reconstruction of high-profile National Historic Sites such as the Halifax Citadel, the Fortress of Louisbourg, the fortifications of Quebec City and the historic core of Dawson City.

At the time, these fortifications were the strongest defences in Canada west of Quebec City.

File: City_of_La_Rochelle_and_fortifications_during_the_siege_anonymous_17th_century. jpg | City of La Rochelle and fortifications during the siege, anonymous, 17th century, Versailles.

Much like Quebec City, the city of Montreal had fortifications, but they were destroyed between 1804 and 1817.

Similar Spanish fortifications of the 17th-18th centuries can be seen in Cuba, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Veracruz and Acapulco, Mexico, Portobelo and Panama City, Panamá, and many other Latin American locations which were governed as part of the Spanish Empire during the Age of Exploration.

In 1973, Bonhomme Ice Palace was moved opposite Québec's National Assembly, on the foot of the Upper City wall ( fortifications ), right next to the entrance of the main setting of Carnival on the Plains of Abraham.

In the 1967 Six Day War the Combat Engineering Corps stormed Jordanian fortifications along the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem.

The first fortifications were built in Cork Harbour in the 17th century, although these were primarily to protect Cork City.

The field fortifications that were hastily thrown up during the summer of 1642, were supplemented with the Lines of Communication ( the name given for new ring of fortifications around the City of London and the outer boroughs ) that were commissioned by Parliament in 1642 and completed in 1643.

That same year he received commendations for his design of fortifications to save Jefferson City, Missouri, during a rebel attack.