Leipzig was a walled city in the Middle Ages and the current " ring " road around the city centre corresponds to the old city walls.

In the second half of the fifteenth century, when the Sforza ruled the city, the old Visconti fortress was enlarged and embellished to became the Castello Sforzesco: the seat of an elegant Renaissance court surrounded by a walled hunting park stocked with game captured around the Seprio and Lake Como.

18th century copy of a late 16th-century map of Trento, northeast at top, showing walled old city and original course of the Adige.

The old walled city was at the foothills of the High Castle on the banks of the river Poltva.

From 1570 when the Ottomans took over Nicosia, the old river bed through the walled city was left open and was used as a dumping ground for refuse, where rainwater would rush through clearing it temporarily.

Ruins of the old walled city of Van seen from the castle rock.

Sighişoara is a popular tourist destination, due to its well-preserved walled old town.

In one incident, a French civilian guided the Canadians to a " secret passage " leading into the walled old town and by-passing the German defenders.

The garden fills the southeastern corner of the old walled city of Oxford.

New areas of the house, once private, were opened up to the public in 2003, with the old rear steps ( that once led up to the hay loft and grain store and often seen in drawings of the period ) being rebuilt, and the old walled kitchen garden, to the rear of the house, being restored.

It formed a walled enclosure with gates at each end, situated between the old Roman Forum and that of Julius Caesar, which had been consecrated by Numa Pompilius himself.

In the early 20th century it was composed of two parts — the old walled town at the bridge over the Euripus, where a number of Turkish families continued to live until the late 19th century, and a sizeable Jewish community lived until World War II, and the more modern suburb that lies outside it, chiefly occupied by Greeks.

Names of the old city gates ( e. g., Bospoort, Maaspoort ) recall the time when the city was walled.

Kunming consists of an old, previously walled city, a modern commercial district, residential and university areas.

The walled enclosures of the Royal William Yard and the old Naval Hospital ( known as the Millfields ) are gated communities with security guards.

One of these is in the village of San Cristóbal de Rapaz, located in the Province of Oyón, where the local villagers, known as the Rapacinos, keep a quipu in an old ceremonial building, the Kaha Wayi, that is itself surrounded by a walled architectural complex.

The palace lies south of the old walled city and was constructed under the supervision of the engineer Muhammad bin Laden.

Here after the second birthday of Jahangir in 1571, Akbar then 28 years old, decided to shift his capital from Agra to the Sikri ridge, to honor Salim Chishti, and commenced the construction of a planned walled city which took the next fifteen years in planning and construction of a series royal palaces, harem, courts, a mosque, private quarters and other utility buildings.

Beaune is a walled city, with about half of the battlements, ramparts, and the moat, having survived and in good condition, and the central " old town " is extensive.

Visitors can also walk along a recreation of the Via Dolorosa, the street in the old walled city of Jerusalem where Jesus carried His cross to Calvary.

Dallas, Texas TBN affiliate KDTX-TV offers tours through a recreation of the Via Dolorosa, the street in the old walled city of Jerusalem where Jesus carried His cross to Calvary, and The Virtual Reality Theater, featuring a 48 channel sound system.

The City also took in the other " City bars " which were situated just beyond the old walled area, such as at Holborn, Aldersgate, Bishopsgate and Aldgate.

The character of this old trading centre changed as a walled city known as Vlaardingen grew, a place where slaves were at the bidding of the imposing foreigners.

Large, irregular suburbs have grown outside the old walled town, and two satellite towns have been set up.

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.

in old town areas.

File: Ohrid Upper Gate close-up. jpg | Medieval ironclad city gate, from the Upper Gate in the old town of Ohrid