Old town

Old town
In a city or town, the old town is its historic or original core. Although the city is usually larger in its present form, many cities have redesignated this part of the city to commemorate its origins after thorough renovations. There are many places throughout the world referred to as the old town (and this is sometimes construed as a proper noun and capitalized). This is a list of some famous old towns:
Africa
Algeria
Casbah of Algiers, in Algeria
Egypt
Medieval Cairo, in Cairo
Old Rashid
Saint Catherine's Monastery, in Sinai
Kenya
Mombasa Old Town
Morocco
Old Meknes in Morocco
Old Essaouira, in Morocco
Old Fes, in Morocco
Old Marrakech, in Morocco
Tétouan in Morocco
El Jadida in Morocco
Niger
Historic Center of Agadez
Tanzania/Zanzibar
Stone Town in Zanzibar City (World Heritage Site)
Tunisia
Old Kairouan, in Tunisia
Medina of Sousse in Tunisia
Medina of Tunis in Tunisia
Asia and the Pacific
Bangladesh
Old Town in Dhaka, Old Dhaka
China
Forbidden City and Old Town remnants of Beijing
Mountain Resort temple town in Chengde
Old Town of Dengfeng
Old Town of Kaiping
Old Town of Lijiang
Old Town and Potala Palace of Lhasa
Historic Centre of Macau
Walled old town area of Nanjing
Old Town of Pingyao
Old Town of Qufu
Old Town of Suzhou
Historical centers of Xidi and Hongcun
Old Town of Yinxu
Old Town of Zhouzhuang
Fiji
Levuka
India
Old Town and monuments of Agra
Historical center of Alchi
Historical center of Amritsar
Old Delhi
Old Goa
Historical center of Hyderabad
Historical ruined center of Mandu
Historical center of Mumbai
Old Town and palace of Udaipur
Indonesia
Old Town of Jakarta, within and 4 Outlying Islands (Onrust, Kelor, Cipir dan Bidadari)
Depok Lama (Old Town of Depok)
Old Town of Semarang
Historic City of Surabaya
Historic Town of Bandung
Historic Town of Medan
Historic Monuments of City of Ternate
Historic Monuments of Banda Neira
Historic Monuments of City Of Tidore
Historic Center of City of Yogyakarta
Old Mining Town Of Sawahlunto
Old Town of Padang
Old City of Bukittinggi
Historic District of Lasem
Historic Center of Solo (Surakarta)
Historic Town of Cirebon
Ancient City of Banten
Historic Center of Palembang
Historic City of Tegal
Historic Town of Bogor
Japan
Historic remnants of old Kyoto
Historic remnants of old Nara
Historic remnants of old Nikkō
Historic centers of Shirakawa-gō and Gokayama
Malaysia
Core heritage zone in George Town, a World Heritage Site
Old Town in Ipoh
Old Town in Petaling Jaya
Pakistan
Walled City of Lahore
Philippines
Philippines as the former colony of Spain has numerous heritage structures, most notably in:
Old Town remnants of Intramuros in Manila
Old Town of Vigan
Old Town of Malolos
Old Town of San Fernando
Old Town of Pila
Old Town of Taal
Old Town of Balayan
Old Town of Baclayon
Old Town of Iloilo
Old Town of Laoag
Old Town of Loboc
Old Town of Carcar
Old Town of Silay
Old Town of Baclayon
Old Town of Dapitan
South Korea
Bukchon Hanok Village (Seoul)
Insa-dong (Seoul)
Nampo-dong (Busan)
Hahoe Folk Village (Andong)
Yangdong Folk Village (Gyeongju)
Syria
Ancient City of Damascus
Ancient City of Aleppo
Thailand
Rattanakosin Island of Bangkok
Talat Noi and Song Wat Road of Bangkok
Kudi Chin of Bangkok
Ban Sing Tha of Yasothon
Old Phuket Town of Phuket
Chak Ngaeo of Chonburi
Chanthaboon Riverside Community of Chanthaburi
Chiang Khan of Loei
Chum Saeng of Nakhon Sawan
Tha Chalom of Samut Sakhon
Uzbekistan
Tashkent
Samarkand
Bukhara
Khiva
Vietnam
Old Town of Hanoi
Old Town of Hội An
Old Town of Huế
Europe
Austria
UNESCO World Heritage old towns in Austria:
Graz (Styria)
Krems an der Donau (Lower Austria)
Salzburg (Salzburg), Altstadt Salzburg
Innere Stadt (Vienna)
Other notable/famous old towns include:
Hall in Tirol (Tyrol)
Innsbruck (Tyrol)
Linz (Upper Austria)
Steyr (Upper Austria)
Klagenfurt am Wörthersee (Carinthia)
Belgium
Antwerp
Arlon
Binche
Bruges
Brussels
Dendermonde
Dinant
Durbuy
Ghent
Leuven
Liège
Lier
Mechelen
Mons
Namur
Thuin
Tournai
Ypres
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Historic Center of Sarajevo
Stari Most (Old City of Mostar)
City of Višegrad
Bulgaria
Old Town in Plovdiv
Old Town in Lovech
Old Town in Nessebur
Croatia
Old Town of Dubrovnik, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Old Town of Split with Diocletian's Palace, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Old Town of Trogir, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Old Town of Varaždin
Gradec and Kaptol, twin old towns of Zagreb
Czech Republic
Staré Město in Prague, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Vnitřní město in Český Krumlov, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Vnitřní město in Kutná Hora, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Vnitřní město in Telč, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Cyprus
Walled city of Nicosia
Walled city of Famagusta
Old town of Limassol
Old town of Paphos also traditionally known as Ktima. Not to be confused with Nea Paphos a World Heritage Site
Old town of Larnaca
Denmark
Den Gamle By in Aarhus
Estonia
Old Town (Vanalinn) of Narva
Old Town (Vanalinn) of Tallinn, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Old Town (Vanalinn) of Tartu
Finland
Old Town (Vanhakaupunki) of Porvoo
Vanhakaupunki in Helsinki
Old Rauma
France
The equivalent of "Old Town" in French is vieille ville, although the more formal centre historique ("historical center") is usually written on road signs.
UNESCO World Heritage old towns in France:
Albi (Tarn)
Avignon (Vaucluse)
Bordeaux (Gironde)
Carcassonne (Aude)
Lyon (Rhône)
Provins (Seine-et-Marne)
Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin)
Other notable/famous old towns include:
Auxerre (Yonne)
Besançon (Doubs)
Lille (Nord)
Montpellier (Hérault)
Nice (Alpes-Maritimes)
Paris (Ile de France)
Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine)
Rouen (Seine-Maritime)
Saint-Malo (Ille-et-Vilaine)
Toulouse (Haute-Garonne)
Georgia
Old Tbilisi (Dzveli Tbilisi) in Tbilisi
Historical Center in Mtskheta, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Old Town in Kutaisi
Old Town in Batumi
Germany
UNESCO World Heritage old towns in Germany:
Bamberg (Franconia)
Goslar (Lower Saxony)
Lübeck (Schleswig-Holstein)
Quedlinburg (Saxony-Anhalt)
Regensburg (Bavaria)
Stralsund (Western Pomerania)
Wismar (Mecklenburg)
Other notable/famous old towns include:
Northern Germany:
Bad Doberan (Mecklenburg)
Binz (Western Pomerania)
Celle (Lower Saxony)
Eckernförde (Schleswig)
Flensburg (Schleswig)
Friedrichstadt (Schleswig)
Güstrow (Mecklenburg)
Hamelin (Lower Saxony)
Hann. Münden (Lower Saxony)
Heringsdorf (Western Pomerania)
Lüneburg (Lower Saxony)
Neustrelitz (Mecklenburg)
Putbus (Western Pomerania)
Ratzeburg (Holstein)
Schwerin (Mecklenburg)
Stade (Lower Saxony)
Waren (Mecklenburg)
Wolfenbüttel (Lower Saxony)
Eastern Germany:
Bautzen (Lusatia)
Erfurt (Thuringia)
Görlitz (Silesia)
Meissen (Saxony)
Pirna (Saxony)
Stolberg (Saxony-Anhalt)
Weimar (Thuringia)
Wernigerode (Saxony-Anhalt)
Southern Germany:
Baden-Baden (Baden)
Dinkelsbühl (Bavaria)
Freiburg (Baden)
Füssen (Bavaria)
Heidelberg (Baden)
Konstanz (Swabia)
Landshut (Bavaria)
Lindau (Bavaria)
Nuremberg (Franconia)
Ravensburg (Swabia)
Rothenburg (Bavaria)
Schwäbisch Hall (Swabia)
Tübingen (Swabia)
Würzburg (Franconia)
Western Germany:
Bacharach (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Beilstein (Rhineland)
Bernkastel-Kues (Rhineland)
Cochem (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Hattingen (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Landau (Palatinate)
Lemgo (Westphalia)
Limburg (Hesse)
Linz am Rhein (Rheinland)
Marburg (Hesse)
Monschau (Rhineland)
Montabaur (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Rüdesheim (Hesse)
Soest (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Trier (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Wetzlar(Hesse)
Xanten (Rhineland)
Greece
Medieval City of Rhodes, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Old Town of Corfu (city), UNESCO World Heritage Site
Old Town of Hania
Nafplio
Plaka, Athina
Italy
UNESCO World Heritage old towns in Italy:
Assisi (Umbria)
Ferrara (Emilia-Romagna)
Florence (Tuscany)
Genoa (Liguria)
Mantua (Lombardy)
Modena (Emilia-Romagna)
Naples (Campania)
Pienza (Tuscany)
Pisa (Tuscany)
Ravenna (Emilia-Romagna)
Rome (Lazio)
San Gimignano (Tuscany)
Siena (Tuscany)
Siracusa (Sicily)
Urbino (Marche)
Venice (Veneto)
Verona (Veneto)
Vicenza (Veneto)
I Borghi più belli d'Italia is an association of small Italian towns of historical interest.
Other notable old towns include:
Northern Italy
Bassano del Grappa (Veneto)
Bergamo (Lombardy)
Bologna (Emilia-Romagna)
Bolzano (Trentino-Alto Adige)
Castelfranco Veneto (Veneto)
Chioggia (Veneto)
Cittadella (Veneto)
Milan (Lombardy)
Palmanova (Friuli-Venezia Giulia)
Parma (Emilia-Romagna)
Pavia (Lombardy)
Polcenigo (Friuli-Venezia Giulia)
Sacile (Friuli-Venezia Giulia)
Trento (Trentino-Alto Adige)
Treviso (Veneto)
Trieste (Friuli-Venezia Giulia)
Turin (Piedmont)
Udine (Friuli-Venezia Giulia)
Vittorio Veneto (Veneto)
Central Italy
Ancona (Marche)
Arezzo (Tuscany)
Camerino (Marche)
Colle di Val d'Elsa (Tuscany)
Gubbio (Umbria)
Loreto (Marche)
Lucca (Tuscany)
Massa Marittima (Tuscany)
Montalcino (Tuscany)
Montefiascone (Lazio)
Monteleone di Spoleto (Umbria)
Montepulciano (Tuscany)
Orvieto (Umbria)
Perugia (Umbria)
Tivoli (Lazio)
Viterbo (Lazio)
Volterra(Tuscany)
Southern Italy
Bari (Apulia)
Catania (Sicily)
Ostuni (Apulia)
Trani (Apulia)
Martina Franca (Apulia)
Monopoli (Apulia)
Lecce (Apulia)
Palermo (Sicily)
Cefalù (Sicily)
Salerno (Campania)
Maratea (Basilicata)
Tropea (Calabria)
Benevento (Campania)
Gallipoli (Apulia)
Erice (Sicily)
Latvia
Vecrīga in Riga, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Lithuania
Senamiestis in Vilnius (a part of UNESCO)
Senamiestis in Kaunas
Senamiestis in Klaipėda
Senamiestis in Trakai
Montenegro
Old Town of Kotor, a World Heritage Site
Old Town of Budva
Old Town of Herceg Novi
Stara Varoš (Podgorica)
Stari Bar
Netherlands
The standard term for 'Old Town' in the Netherlands is "binnenstad", which translates as "innercity", i.e. in city on the inside of the city walls.
Oude Stad in Nijmegen
Oude Stad (Tilburg)
Norway
Old Town, Oslo
Poland
Kraków Old Town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Warsaw Old Town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Old City of Zamość, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Medieval Town of Toruń, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Poznań Old Town
Old town of Bielsko-Biała
Old town of Byczyna
Old town of Cieszyn
Old town of Chełmno
Old town of Darłowo
Old town of Sandomierz
Old town of Gliwice
Old town of Gdańsk
Old town of Grudziądz
Old town of Kożuchów
Old town of Krosno
Old town of Leszno
Old town of Lublin
Old town of Paczków
Old town of Piotrków Trybunalski
Old town of Przemyśl
Old town of Pszczyna
Old town of Szczecin
Old town of Stargard Szczeciński
Old town of Świdnica
Old town of Tarnów
Old town of Trzebiatów
Old town of Ziębice
Old town of Ząbkowice Śląskie
Old town of Wrocław
Police Old Town
Old town of Nowe Warpno
Portugal
Old town in Póvoa de Varzim, named "old town" (Vila Velha) since 1343.
Old town in Oporto
Old town in Guimarães
Óbidos, Portugal walled city
Old town in Évora
Old town in Lisboa
Romania
Old town of Arad
Old town of Botoșani
Old town of Brașov
Old town of Brăila
Old town of Bucharest
Old town of Cluj Napoca
Old town of Constanța
Old town of Craiova
Old town of Oradea
Old town of Sibiu, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Old town of Sighișoara, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Old town of Timișoara
Serbia
Stari Grad, a neighborhood in Novi Sad
Petrovaradin suburb
Stari Grad, Sremski Karlovci - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance
Stari Grad, Kikinda - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance
Stari Grad, Zrenjanin - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance
Stari Grad, Bečej - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance
Stari Grad, Sombor - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance
Stari Grad, Pančevo - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance
Stari Grad, Subotica - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance
Stari Grad, Sremska Mitrovica - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance
Stari Grad, Zemun - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance
Stari Grad, a municipality in Belgrade
Stara čaršija, Grocka, Belgrade - Two quarters of Old City are a Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance
Tešnjar, Valjevo - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance
Stara čaršija, Novi Pazar - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance
Stari Grad, a municipality in Kragujevac
Stari Grad, the remains of a fort in Užice
Stari Grad, Ivanjica - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance
Stari Grad, Negotin - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance
Slovakia
Staré Mesto in Bratislava
Staré Mesto in Košice
Spain
UNESCO World Heritage old towns in Spain:
Alcalá de Henares (Madrid)
Ávila (Castile and León)
Baeza (Andalusia)
Cáceres (Extremadura)
Córdoba (Andalusia)
Cuenca (Castile-La Mancha)
Salamanca (Castile and León)
San Cristóbal de La Laguna (Canary Islands)
Santiago de Compostela (Galicia)
Segovia (Castile and León)
Toledo (Castile-La Mancha)
Úbeda (Andalusia)
Other notable/famous old towns include:
Almagro (Castile-La Mancha)
Andújar (Andalusia)
Avilés (Asturias)
Bilbao (Basque Country)
Burgos (Castile and León)
Cádiz (Andalusia)
Girona (Catalonia)
Granada (Andalusia)
Hondarribia (Basque Country)
Ibiza (Balearic Islands)
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Canary Islands)
León (Castile and León)
Lorca (Murcia)
Lugo (Galicia)
Madrid (Madrid)
Ourense (Galicia)
Oviedo (Asturias)
Palma de Mallorca (Balearic Islands)
Pamplona (Navarre)
Peniscola (Valencian Community)
Pontevedra (Galicia)
Priego de Córdoba (Andalusia)
San Sebastián (Basque Country)
San Roque (Andalusia)
Sanlúcar de Barrameda (Andalusia)
Seville (Andalusia)
Solsona (Catalonia)
Tafalla (Navarre)
Tarragona (Catalonia)
Teruel (Aragón)
Toro (Castile and León)
Trujillo (Extremadura)
Tudela (Navarre)
Vitoria-Gasteiz (Basque Country)
Zamora (Castile and León)
Sweden
Gamla staden, Malmö
Gamla stan, Stockholm
Gamlestaden, Gothenburg
Gammelstaden, Luleå Municipality
Visby, Region Gotland, UNESCO
Switzerland
Bern, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Zürich, District 1
Turkey
Istanbul, Historic Peninsula (Fatih district)
Ankara, Historic city center (Altındağ district)
Amasya, Historic city center
Ukraine
Stare Misto in Lviv
Old Kyiv
United Kingdom
England
UNESCO World Heritage old towns in England:
City of Bath
Maritime Greenwich
Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City
Old Town, Barnsley
Old Town, Chard
Old Town, Croydon
Old Town, Cumbria
Old Town, Eastbourne
Old Town, Hastings
Old Town, Isles of Scilly
Old Town, Kingston upon Hull
Old Town, Northumberland
Old Town, Southampton, a district of the city of Southampton
Old Town, Swindon
Old Town, West Yorkshire
Scotland
Old Town, Edinburgh, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, along with the New Town, Edinburgh
Overseas territories
Historic Town of St George, Bermuda, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Middle East
Israel and Palestine
Old City of Jerusalem
Old City of Acre
Old City of Beersheba
Old City of Haifa
Old Jaffa
Old City of Nazareth
Old City of Bethlehem
Old City of Ramle
Old City of Hebron
Old City of Nablus
Old City of Tiberias
Old City of Safed
Old City of Lydda
Lebanon
Old Byblos
Old Sidon
Old Tripoli
Old Tyre
Beirut Central District
Old Batroun
Deir el Qamar
Rachaya
Saudi Arabia
Diriyah in Riyadh
Syria
Ancient City of Aleppo, in Syria
Ancient City of Bosra, in Syria
Ancient City of Damascus in Syria
Yemen
Old City of Sana'a in Yemen
Old Walled City of Shibam in Yemen
Zabīd in Yemen
North America
Canada
Historic District of Old Quebec, Quebec, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Old Town Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Old Montreal, Quebec
Old Town, Toronto, Ontario
Cuba
Old Havana
Dominican Republic
Ciudad Colonial in Santo Domingo, oldest European city in America, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Mexico
Historic center of Mexico City, Mexico City, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Guanajuato City, Guanajuato, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Morelia, Michoacán, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Oaxaca City, Oaxaca, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Zacatecas City, Zacatecas, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Queretaro City, Querétaro
Campeche City, Campeche, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Tlacotalpan, Veracruz, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Panama
Panamá Viejo, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Puerto Rico
Old San Juan, UNESCO World Heritage Site, U.S. National Register of Historic Places
United States
California
Old Town Eureka, California an original 19th Century Victorian commercial district in Eureka, California
Old Town, Kern County, California
Old Town, Marin County, California
Old Town, Santa Barbara County, California
Old Town, Ventura County, California
Old Town, California, former name of Pine Town, California, in Lassen County
Old Town Pasadena, California
Old Sacramento State Historic Park, Sacramento, California
Old Town San Diego State Historic Park, San Diego, California
Old Town, San Diego, a neighborhood of San Diego
Florida
Old Town, Florida, a town in Dixie County, not to be confused with the one in Orlando
Old Town Fernandina, Fernandina Beach, Florida; the last town in the Western Hemisphere to be platted according to the Spanish "Law of the Indies" in 1811; named for King Ferdinand VII
Old Town, Key West, the historic section of the city of Key West, Florida
Old Town, an amusement park/shopping center in Kissimmee, Florida
North Carolina
Old Town, Brunswick County, North Carolina
Old Town, Forsyth County, North Carolina
Old Town Township, Forsyth County, North Carolina
Tennessee
Old Town (Franklin, Tennessee) a location along the Natchez Trace named for the Mississippian mound complex there
Old Town (Mississippian culture mound complex), Franklin, Tennessee
Thomas Brown House (Franklin, Tennessee), also known as Old Town, NRHP-listed
Virginia
Old Town Fairfax
Old Town Alexandria
Old Town Manassas
Portsmouth Olde Towne Historic District
Other US states
Old Town Scottsdale, Arizona
Old Town, Augusta, Georgia
Old Town, Chicago, Illinois
Old Town, Indiana
Old Town, Wichita, Kansas
Old Town, Maine, a city
Olde Towne Gaithersburg, Maryland
Old Town Lansing, Michigan
Old Town Albuquerque, New Mexico
Old Town, Staten Island, New York
Old Town Chinatown, Portland, Oregon
South America
Argentina
San Telmo and La Boca in Buenos Aires
Brazil
Northeast
Historic Center of Olinda
Historic Center of Salvador, also known as Pelourinho
Historic Center of São Luis
Center-West
Historic Center of Goiás, Goiás
Southeast
Historic Center of Diamantina, Minas Gerais
Centro, in Rio de Janeiro
Sé, in the Central Zone of São Paulo
South
Centro Histórico, in Porto Alegre
Colombia
La Candelaria, a historic neighborhood in downtown Bogotá
Ecuador
Quito´s Historic Center
Uruguay
Ciudad Vieja in Montevideo, "Old City" is the name of the oldest part of the city
Other uses
The Girls of Old Town, a group of prostitutes in the comic series Sin City
Old Town (song), a song by Phil Lynott, later covered by the Corrs
See also
Altstadt
Eskişehir, "Old City" in Turkish
Old City (disambiguation)
Oldtown (disambiguation)
Stare Miasto (disambiguation), "Old Town" in Polish
Stari Grad (disambiguation), means "Old Town"
References
External links
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