The old town, Laurenzenvorstadt, government building, cantonal library, state archive and art museum are all listed as heritage sites of national significance.

Also in Roman times, some Essenes settled on the Dead Sea's western shore ; Pliny the Elder identifies their location with the words, " on the west side of the Dead Sea, away from the coast ... the town of Engeda " ( Natural History, Bk 5. 73 ); and it is therefore a hugely popular but contested hypothesis today, that same Essenes are identical with the settlers at Qumran and that " the Dead Sea Scrolls " discovered during the 20th century in the nearby caves had been their own library.

The new town also included shops, schools, mills, a granary, a hotel, library, distilleries, breweries, a brick kiln, pottery ovens, barn, stables, storehouses, and two churches, one of which was brick.

When Trotsky arrived in New York in January 1917, Bukharin was the first to greet him ( as Trotsky's wife recalled, " with a bear hug and immediately began to tell them about a public library which stayed open late at night and which he proposed to show us at once " dragging the tired Trotskys across town " to admire his great discovery ").

* In the Moral Orel television programme, Moralton's town library is named the Thomas Bowdler Library ; most of the library's books are censored ( Episode 2, " God's Greatest Gift ")

The library holdings are split between the public library in the town center and Ilimmarfik, the campus of the University of Greenland.

The town has a number of cultural institutions including the Regional Museum of Anthropology, a geological museum, a regional library and a university.

At a meeting in the town library in October 1968 the revival was initiated by Stanley Wotherington, and in August 1970 the new club played at a new ground, the Crown Ground.

* Note: The £ 55m project is now complete, and the new school includes a media suite, library, town square, sports hall, and a huge hall dubbed ' The Devon Hall '.

After finishing his education in 1764 he returned to Beaune, where he made a large-scale plan of the town, inventing the methods of observation and constructing the necessary instruments ; the plan was presented to the town, and is still preserved in their library.

The town has Cloakham Lawns, the Axe Valley Sports Centre and Flamingo Swimming Pool, a library, several churches and a museum of local history.

The railway station encouraged the government to site its buildings-the town hall, library, police station, court and post office in the area surrounding Clapham Junction ; the Arding and Hobbs department store, diagonally opposite the station, was the largest of its type at the time of its construction in 1885 ; and the area was served by a vast music hall-The Grand-opposite the station and nowadays serving as a nightclub and venue for smaller bands.

The town centre has a mix of high street stores, independent shops, a modern library, coffee shops, and several pubs.

and public library were built in Wallington town centre in the 1930s, as was the fire station in Belmont Road.

( The original county courthouse in Rico is now the town hall and a branch of the public library.

During the Great Depression, WPA funds provided paved streets, a new hospital, a new town hall and a library.

The town ’ s first bank and first library also started in the building, and several religious groups met there before their churches were built.

Mark Twain, a resident of the town in his old age, contributed the first books for a public library which was eventually named after him.

* Mark Twain Library, the town public library

The town library has 166, 358 volumes ( as of 2001 ).

Madison's center of town is the main area for businesses and the location of the town library and Madison Green.

Locations included the town library and the historic Samuel Simpson House.

* Since 1997, a series of cultural, art, music and entertainment events have taken place in November at various locations in the town, under the title, Novembernebel ( November fog )

In his town plan Aalto proposed a line of separate marble-clad buildings fronting the bay which would house various cultural institutions, including a concert hall, opera, museum of architecture and headquarters for the Finnish Academy.

Ansbach was a small town largely by-passed by the Industrial Revolution, an administrative and cultural center.

It is a town with a prosperous service sector which is also home to industrial companies and has good cultural and educational amenities.

It is a university town ( since 1990 ), a long-standing cultural centre, and a market and shopping town, surrounded by vineyards and wine-growing villages of the Palatinate wine region.

After the annexion to the Piedmont in the Kingdom of Sardinia, the town became the administrative center of the area, obtaining the title of city in 1836 ; in the 19th century it was one of the main cultural centers of Sardinia.

Another famous place ( les Frigos ) was legalized and integrated into the cultural politics of the town council.

Also at this time, numerous Sephardic Jews driven out of Spain in 1492 settled in Üsküb, adding to the cultural mix of the town and enhancing the town's trading reputation.

The town also has other points of cultural notability ; in recent times, its position as an affluent suburb of Paris has meant that it forms a part of the Paris artistic scene, and musical groups such as Phoenix, Air and Daft Punk have some link to the city, as does the director Michel Gondry.

In fifty years, Yerevan was transformed from a town of a few thousand residents within the Russian Empire, to Armenia's principal cultural, artistic, and industrial center, as well as becoming the seat of national government.

The town has grown rapidly ever since the turn of the 20th century into the undisputed administrative, economic and cultural center of the Faroes.

The Heart of Slough Project is a plan for the large-scale redevelopment of the town centre as a focus and cultural quarter for the creative media, information and communications industries.

* The Faradda di li candareri ( The Descent of the Candelieri ): it's a devotional procession, in which enormous wooden candles are carried by members of the city guilds from the town centre to the church of Santa Maria of Betlem, in commemoration of the end of the plague in 1582, but it probably has older origins, from a cultural tradition from Pisa that as early as in the second half of the 13th century was practiced in some parts of Sardinia.

The town has traditionally been known as the seat of Serbian Orthodox Church in the Habsburg Monarchy, as well as political and cultural capital of Serbian Vojvodina after the May Assembly and during the Revolution in 1848.

Auden, September 1, 1939: " Accurate scholarship can / Unearth the whole offense / From Luther until now / That has driven a culture mad, Find what occurred at Linz ...." To the end of his life, Hitler considered Linz to be his " home town ", and envisioned extensive architectural schemes for it, wanting it to become the main cultural centre of the Third Reich.

The key date in Bacup's cultural calendar is Easter Saturday, when the Britannia Coco-nut Dancers beat the bounds of the town via a dance procession.

* Palmyra Square, part of the cultural quarter, location of Parr Hall in the town of Warrington, Cheshire

During the eighteenth century, the town of Madrid was transformed through several grandiose buildings and monuments as well as through the creation of many social, economical, and cultural institution, some of which are still operating.

The rich town soon became an important cultural centre.

Obtaining the city rights helped the dynamic economic and cultural development of the town.

After Poland was reunited, the town became a notable centre of weaving and wood production, as well as one of the cultural centres of Greater Poland.

The town is also home to educational and cultural events.

He built a model town for his employees that included comfortable homes, an inexpensive public transportation system, a quality public school system and extensive recreational and cultural opportunities.