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The old town centre is located in ville basse while Surville is an assembly of high rise buildings, erected after World War II, and is in many ways a typical cité in the Île-de-France.
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They had cleaned up an old ice box and begun to buy fifty-pound blocks of ice in town, as the electric refrigerator came nowhere near providing enough ice for the crowds who ate and drank there.
Another spot with an image-provoking name is the Black Hills where you can visit the old frontier mining town of Deadwood.
Gulf Springs was ten miles inland -- more of a quaint old coast town than those along the beach made garish by tourist attractions.
The fine old mansions of U.S. Grant's old home town of Galena, Ill. are open for inspection ( Sept. 23, 24 ).
So had Miss Shawnee Rakestraw, full of criticisms about the changes here, giving thanks that her dear old father had gone to his Heavenly Rest last year, saying how much she enjoyed her boarding house in town in inclement weather, was looking forward to Quinzaine Spa this summer.
* 2002 – Soham murders: 10 year old school girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells go missing from the town of Soham, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.
The historic old town forms an irregular square, consisting of four parts ( called Stöcke ).
The old town, Laurenzenvorstadt, government building, cantonal library, state archive and art museum are all listed as heritage sites of national significance.
Best eaten at the famous Ikbal restaurants ( either the old one in the town centre or the big place on the main road ).
At the end of the war, 19-year old student Robert Limpert tried to get the town to surrender to the US Forces without a fight.
The old hospital in the town dates from 1717.
Because of the effects of the Great Depression on the Detroit area, his father moved the family to Boothwyn, Pennsylvania, near the town of Chester, when Bill was seven years old.
A view of Samuil's Fortress, over the old town in Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia | Macedonia.
* Castello, the old town center of Giudicato of Cagliari in Sardinia
Dartmouth also has a pre-school in the centre of town, established for over 40 years and based in the old Victorian school rooms at South Ford Road.
Running from the west the river Amper runs south of Dachau ’ s old town, changes its direction at the former paper milling plant to the northeast and continues through Prittlbach into Hebertshausen.
Captain Cole was installed as Constable and strengthened the castle wall and built a " fair house " on the old foundation as the centrepoint of the county town.
Ennius was born at Rudiae, an old Italian ( predominantly Oscan ) town historically founded by the Messapians.
Two churches were reconstructed and the remaining ruins of the old town were torn down in the 1960s.
Once a year a candlelight walk is held in old town Eureka.
The traditional subdivision of Florence into four quarters dates from the 14th century ( that today compose the old town ):
While travel to Brazil is via the old cattle trail it has been upgraded into a fair weather track that passes through the bauxite-producing town of Linden and ending at Lethem.
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File: Ohrid Upper Gate close-up. jpg | Medieval ironclad city gate, from the Upper Gate in the old town of Ohrid
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Constantine laid out a new square at the centre of old Byzantium, naming it the Augustaeum.
The Graslei is one of the most scenic places in Ghent's old city centre
Hastings town centre and the Memorial from an old postcard
In the Crescent is the classical style church of St Mary in the Castle ( its name recalling the old chapel in the castle above ) now in use as an arts centre.
Some other remarkable towers are the VW-Tower in the city centre and the old towers of the former mid-age defence belt: Döhrener Tower, Lister Tower and the Horse Tower.
" " The sole industrial centre outside the collieries and blast furnaces of Walloon was the old cloth making town of Ghent.
Leipzig was a walled city in the Middle Ages and the current " ring " road around the city centre corresponds to the old city walls.
The former river forms a gorge running through the middle of the city south of the old city centre, generally following the course of the present Rue Centrale, with several bridges crossing the depression to connect the adjacent neighbourhoods.
in the 19th-century, the former fortifications gave way to a ring road that encircles the old town centre, from which the old industrial buildings have been excluded.
* 1940 – World War II: the old city centre of the Dutch town of Middelburg is bombed by the German Luftwaffe, to force the surrender of the Dutch armies in Zeeland.
The old city walls were taken down in the early 19th century, and major development took place to the west of the old city, with many of the main streets of today's city centre being laid out.
Radiating from the centre of the city, the historic cathedral is surrounded by paved granite streets, tucked away in the old town, and separated from the newer part of the city by the largest of many parks throughout the city, Parque da Alameda.
The territory of Skopje has been inhabited since at least 4000 BC ; remains of Neolithic settlements have been found within the old Kale Fortress that overlooks the modern city centre.
Since Estonia regained its independence in 1991, the old town centre is being renovated.
The university's old campus, strongly influenced by Prussian architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel's neoclassical style, is located in the centre of Oslo near the National Theatre, the Royal Palace and the Parliament.
Two ghettos were set up in the old town centre for the large Jewish population – the smaller one of which was " liquidated " by October.
During the Holocaust, about 95 % of the 265, 000-strong Jewish population of Lithuania was murdered by the German units and Lithuanian Nazi collaborators, many of them in Paneriai, about 10 km west of the old town centre ( see the Ponary massacre ).
In the old centre, the canals serve the function of roads, and almost every form of transport is on water or on foot.
The historic town centre consists of an old town and a new town ( Altstadt and Neustadt ).
The centre of the old city is a semicircular Neoclassical square with the Tuscan column of cast iron ( 1805 – 11 ), commemorating the centenary of the Battle of Poltava and featuring 18 Swedish cannons captured in that battle.
However, in February 2011, students gained access to the old HRC building, situated at 13 University Gardens ( Hetherington House ) and have now " reopened " it as the Free Hetherington, a social centre for learning and lectures, as well as protesting the shutting down of the club.
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