In a city or town the old town is its historic or original core Although the city is usually larger in its present form

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. In some cases, newer developments on the periphery of the original settlement may have become the town's principal commercial and/or residential hub, leaving the historic "old town" as a secondary focus. There are many places throughout the world referred to as the old town (sometimes construed as a proper noun and capitalized). This is a list of some famous old towns:

Stralsund in Germany, an old town designated a **World Heritage Site** by **UNESCO**. European old towns are often recognizable by their density, small alleys and buildings of different eras.

The medieval old town of **Porvoo** on the **Porvoonjoki** river, Finland

Traditional houses, with the Roman Catholic **Church of the Holy Cross** in the background, in the walled city of **Nicosia**, Cyprus

A street in the old town of **Limassol**, Cyprus

Africa

Algeria

Casbah of Algiers, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Old Town of Constantine
Old Town of Oran
Old Béjaïa
Old Tlemcen

Egypt

Medieval Cairo, in Cairo, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Old Rashid
Old Town of Alexandria

Ethiopia

Old Town of Harar, UNESCO World Heritage Site

Ivory Coast

Historic Town of Grand-Bassam, UNESCO World Heritage Site

Kenya

Lamu Old Town, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Mombasa Old Town

Libya

Old Town of Ghadamès, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Old Tripoli
Old Misrata

Mali

Historic Center of Timbuktu, UNESCO World Heritage Site

Morocco

Old Meknes, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Old Essaouira, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Old Fes, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Old Marrakech, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Tétouan, UNESCO World Heritage Site
El Jadida, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Old Tangier
Old Rabat
Old Asilah
Chefchaouen

Niger

Historic Center of Agadez, UNESCO World Heritage Site

Senegal

Historic Center of Saint-Louis, UNESCO World Heritage Site

Tanzania/Zanzibar

Stone Town in Zanzibar City, UNESCO World Heritage Site

Tunisia

Old Kairouan, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Medina of Sousse, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Medina of Tunis, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Old Sfax

Asia and the Pacific

Australia

Old Town of Ballarat
Old Beechworth
Old Town of Fitzroy
Historic center of Sydney (The Rocks, Newtown)
Historic center of Melbourne (CBD)
Historic center of Hobart
Historic center of Adelaide

Bangladesh

Old Town in Dhaka, Old Dhaka
Sonargaon

China

UNESCO World Heritage Sites

Historical centers of Xidi and Hongcun

Forbidden City and Old Town remnants of Beijing
Mountain Resort temple town in Chengde
Old Town of Pingyao
Old Town of Lijiang
Old Town of Qufu
Old Town of Kaiping
Historic Centre of Macau
Gulangyu

East China

Old Sanfang Qixiang
Old Town of Yongding
Ancient Town of Shaoxing
Ancient Town of Wuzhen
Ancient Town of Qibao
Ancient Town of Fengjing
Ancient Town of Nanxun
Ancient Town of Xitang
Ancient Town of Zhujiajiao
Ancient Town of Qiandeng
Ancient Town of Jinxi
Ancient Town of Luzhi
Ancient Town of Zhouzhuang
Ancient Town of Tongli
Ancient Town of Mudu
Ancient Town of Suzhou
Ancient Town of Tunxi
Walled old town area of Nanjing

Southwestern China

Old Town and Potala Palace of Lhasa
Dali Ancient City
Pingle Ancient Town
Heshun
Ancient Town of Zhenyuan
Ancient Town of Ciqikou
Ancient Town of Lizhuang
Ancient Town of
Ancient Town of Shangli
Ancient Town of Luodai
Ancient Town of Jiezi

Northwestern China

Ancient Town
Old Town of Kashgar

South Central China

Old Town of Dengfeng
Yangmei Ancient Town
Huangyao Ancient Town
Fenghuang Ancient Town
Ancient Town of Liye
Ancient Town of Furong
Ancient Town of Luoyang
Ancient Town of Xijiang

Northeast China

Old Town of Harbin

Fiji

Levuka

India

Old Town and monuments of Agra
Historic Center of Ahmedabad
Historical center of Alchi
Historical center of Amritsar
Budaun
Havelis of Bundi
Havelis of Bikaner
Champaner
Old Delhi
Fatehpur Sikri
Old Goa
Historical center of Gwalior
Hampi
Historical center of Hyderabad
Old Town of Jaipur
Jaisalmer Fort
Old Town of Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh
Old Town of Jodhpur
Kalna City
Kanadukathan and other towns of Chettinad
Historical center of Kochi
Garden Reach and other historic districts of Kolkata
Kuldhara
Kumbakonam
Historic center of Leh
Old Town of Lucknow
Havelis of Mandawa
Maheshwar
Old Town of Murshidabad
Havelis of Nawalgarh
Orchha
Osian, Jodhpur
Historic districts of Patna
Havelis of Phalodi
Pushkar
Historical center of Puducherry
Historical ruined center of Mandu
Historical center of Mumbai
Siddhpur
Old Town of Srinagar
Old Town and palace of Udaipur
Old Town of Varanasi

The Stadhuis is an old building in Jakarta Old Town

Keraton Kanoman is one of the oldest buildings in the historic town of Cirebon

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

UNESCO World Heritage Sites

Historic center of Kyoto (Gion and Higashiyama districts)
Historic centers of Shirakawa-gō and Gokayama

Chūbu

Samurai district of Kanazawa (Nagamachi)
Geisha district of Kanazawa (Higashi Chaya)
Magome Post Town
Matsumoto Nakamachi Merchant District
Narai Post Town
Tsumago Post Town
Takayama Merchant District

Chūgoku

Hagi Former Castle Town
Mitarai Historic Townscape
Kurashiki Bikan Historical Quarter
Tomonoura Port Town
Fukiya Merchant District
Matsue Samurai District
Yunotsu Onsen Port Town

Kansai

Imaicho Merchant Town
Naramachi Merchant District
Miyama Farming Town
Ine Port Town
Omihachiman
Oharaimachi

Kantō

Sawara Merchant District
Kawagoe Warehouse District

Kyushu

Kitsuki Samurai District
Usuki Samurai District
Taketomi Island
Misumi West Port Town

Shikoku

Yokaichi Merchant District
Kasashima Port Town

Tōhoku

Ouchijuku Post Town
Kakunodate Samurai District

Malaysia

Historic center of George Town, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Historic center of Malacca, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Old Town of Kuala Lumpur
Old Town of Alor Setar
Old Town of Ipoh
Old Town of Petaling Jaya
Old Town of Miri
Old Town of Taiping
Old Town of Kuala Kangsar
Old Town of Bentong
Old Town of Gopeng
Old Town of Kuala Terengganu
Old Town of Muar
Old Town of Batu Pahat
Old Town of Kuala Kubu Bharu
Old Town of Kuala Selangor
Old Town of Lumut
Chinatown of Kuching

Nepal

Old Town and Durbar Square of Kathmandu
Old Town and Durbar Square of Bhaktapur
Old Town and Durbar Square of Lalitpur
Kirtipur

New Zealand

Old Town of Napier
Historic center of Wellington
Historic town of Feilding
Historic town of Russell
Historic town of Arrowtown
Old Oamaru

Pakistan

Walled City of Lahore
Sethi Mohallah
Old City of Multan

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 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

Singapore

Little India, Singapore

South Korea

Old town (**Bukchon Hanok Village**) in **Seoul**

Hahoe Folk Village (Andong), UNESCO World Heritage Site
Yangdong Folk Village (Gyeongju), UNESCO World Heritage Site
Bukchon Hanok Village (Seoul)
Oeam Folk Village (Asan)
Jeonju Hanok Village (Jeonju)
Nagan Eupseong Folk Village (Nagan)

Taiwan

Old Jioufen
Sisinan
Qinbi

Thailand

Rank of **Sino-Portuguese** shophouses on both sides of the road in **Phraeng Phuthon** of **Sam Phraeng** within Rattanakosin Island

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
Old Town of Ho Chi Minh City

Europe

Austria

Old Town Salzburg across the Salzach river

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)

Armenia

Abovyan street in the Old Town of Gyumri

Historical Center in Vagharshapat, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Old Town of Goris (Syunik)
Old Khndzoresk (Syunik)
Poqr Tagh and in Meghri (Syunik)
Old Town of Dilijan (Tavush)
Old Town of Ashtarak (Aragatsotn)
Kumayri in Gyumri (Shirak)
Old Town of Tashir (Lori)
Old Town of Tegh (Syunik)
Kond, Old Nork and Erebuni Fortress in Yerevan

Albania

Historical Center of Berat, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Historical Center of Gjirokaster, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Old Town of Vlorë
Old Town of Durrës
Old Town of Lezhë
Old Town of Shkodër
Old Town of Korçë
Old Town of Krujë
Old Town of Dhërmi
Castle of Elbasan

Azerbaijan

Walled City of Baku in Baku, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Historic Center of Shaki, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Old Town of Ordubad
Old Town of Ganja

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
Jajce
Vratnik
Old Tuzla

Bulgaria

Old Town in Plovdiv
Old Town in Lovech
Old Town in Nessebur
Old Town in Sofia
Old Town in Veliko Tarnovo

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
Old Town of Rovinj
Old Zadar
Gradec and Kaptol, twin old towns of Zagreb
Old Rijeka
Old Osijek

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
Vnitřní město in Karlovy Vary
Vnitřní město in Brno
Vnitřní město in Plzeň

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
Nyhavn in Copenhagen
Old Odense

Estonia

Town Hall square in the Old Town of Tallinn

Old Town (Vanalinn) of Narva
Old Town (Vanalinn) of Tallinn, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Old Town (Vanalinn) of Tartu
Old Town (Vanalinn) of Pärnu

Finland

Old Town (Vanhakaupunki) of Porvoo
Vanhakaupunki in Turku
Vanhakaupunki in Helsinki
Old Rauma

France

The Old Town of **Albi**, a UNESCO World Heritage site

The old city of **Besançon** and the meander of the Doubs River

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:

Aix-en-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône)
Amiens (Somme)
Angers (Maine-et-Loire)
Angoulême (Charente)
Annecy (Haute-Savoie)
Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône)
Arras (Pas-de-Calais)
Auch (Gers)
Auxerre (Yonne)
Bayonne (Pyrénées-Atlantiques)
Besançon (Doubs)
Béziers (Hérault)
Blois (Loir-et-Cher)
Bourges ( Cher)
Caen (Calvados)
Cahors (Lot)
Chartres (Eure-et-Loire)
Chambéry (Savoie)
Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme)
Colmar (Haut-Rhin)
Dieppe (Seine-Maritime)
Dijon (Côte-d'Or)
Dinan (Côtes-d'Armor)
Dole (Jura)
Grenoble (Isère)
Langres (Haute-Marne)
Laon (Aisne)
La Rochelle (Charente-Maritime)
Le Mans (Sarthe)
Lille (Nord)
Limoges (Haute-Vienne)
Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône)
Metz (Moselle)
Montpellier (Hérault)
Moulins (Allier)
Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin)
Nancy (Meurthe-et-Moselle)
Nantes (Loire-Atlantique)
Narbonne (Aude)
Nice (Alpes-Maritimes)
Nîmes (Gard)
Orléans (Loiret)
Paris
Perpignan (Pyrénées-Orientales)
Poitiers (Vienne)
Quimper (Finistère)
Reims (Marne)
Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine)
Rodez (Aveyron)
Rouen (Seine-Maritime)
Saint-Étienne (Loire)
Saint-Malo (Ille-et-Vilaine)
Sens (Yonne)
Toulon (Var)
Toulouse (Haute-Garonne)
Tours (Indre-et-Loire)
Troyes (Aube)
Valence (Drôme)
Vannes (Morbihan)

Georgia

Old Tbilisi (Dzveli Tbilisi) in Tbilisi
Historical Center in Mtskheta, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Old Town in Kutaisi (Imereti)
Old Town in Batumi (Adjara)
Old Town in Sighnaghi (Kakheti)
Old Town in Telavi (Kakheti)
Old Town in Gori (Shida Kartli)

Germany

Old town (**Altstadt**) of **Regensburg** in **Bavaria**, a **World Heritage** site

Hanseatic old town of **Lübeck**, aerial view

**Wittenberg** during *Luthers Hochzeit* festival

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, South Aegean
Historical center of Corfu (city), UNESCO World Heritage Site, Ionian Islands
Historical center of Chora, UNESCO World Heritage Site, South Aegean

Crete

Old Town of Chania
Old Town of Heraklion
Old Town of Agios Nikolaos
Old Town of Rethymno

Attica

Plaka, Athens

Macedonia

Ano Poli and Ladadika, Thessaloniki
Old Town of Drama
Old Town of Kavala
Old Town of Florina
Old Town of Nymfaio

Thessaly

Varousi, Trikala
Old Town of Volos

Thrace

Old Town of Xanthi
Old Town of Komotini

Epirus

Old Town of Parga
Old Town of Metsovo
Ioannina Castle, Ioannina
Old Town of Preveza
Old Town of Konitsa

Peloponnese

Old Town of Koroni
Old Town of Dimitsana
Old Town of Kalavryta
Old Stemnitsa
Old Town of Areopoli
Old Town of Patras
Old Town of Leonidio
Old Town of Kalamata
Monemvasia
Old Town of Nafplio

Ionian Islands

Old Town of Fiskardo

Aegan Islands

Old Town of Mithymna
Old Town of Symi
Old Town of Andros
Old Town of Mykonos
Old Town of Ermoupoli

Central Greece

Old Town of Galaxidi, Central Greece
Old Arachova
Old Town of Nafpaktos
Old Town of Livadeia

Italy

Vernazza, one of the towns of **Cinque Terre** in Liguria, Italy

UNESCO World Heritage old towns in Italy:
- Assisi (Umbria)
- Ferrara (Emilia-Romagna)
- Florence (Tuscany)
- Genoa (Liguria)
- Mantua (Lombardy)
- Modena (Emilia-Romagna)
- Naples (Campania)
- Padua (Veneto)
- 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
Old Town of Liepāja
Old Daugavpils
Old Kuldīga
Old Town of Cēsis
Old Ventspils

Lithuania

Senamiestis in Vilnius (a part of UNESCO)
Senamiestis in Kaunas
in Klaipėda
in Trakai
in Kėdainiai
in Ukmergė

Montenegro

Old Town of Kotor, a World Heritage Site
Old Town of Budva
Old Town of Herceg Novi
Old Town of Perast
Old Town of Ulcinj
Historical core of Cetinje
Stara Varoš (Podgorica)
Stari Bar

Moldova

Old Town of Chișinău

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 in Amsterdam
Oude Stad in Dordrecht
Oude Stad in Utrecht
Oude Stad in Groningen
Oude Stad in Alkmaar
Oude Stad in Gouda
Oude Stad in Breda
Oude Stad in Delft
Oude Stad in Leeuwarden
Oude Stad in Arnhem

North Macedonia

Historical Center of Ohrid, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Old Town of Bitola
Old Bazaar of Skopje
Old Town of Kruševo

Norway

Old Town, Oslo
Old Town, Ålesund
Old Town, Bergen
Old Town, Grimstad

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 Porto
Old town in Guimarães
Óbidos, Portugal walled city
Old town in Évora
Old town in Lisbon

Romania

Old town of Sighișoara, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Old town of Arad
Old town of Alba Iulia
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 Iași
Old town of Oradea
Old town of Sibiu
Old town of Timișoara

Russia

The embankment along the Moyka river, St. Petersburg

UNESCO World Heritage Sites

Old town of St. Petersburg, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Old town of Veliky Novgorod
Old town of Derbent
Historic center of Yaroslavl

Central Federal District

Historic center of Moscow and Moscow Kremlin
Historic center of Tula and Tula Kremlin
Historic center of Tver
Old Town of Tutayev, historic settlement of federal importance
Old Town of Kolomna, historic settlement of federal importance
Old Town of Smolensk, historic settlement of federal importance
Old Town of Ostashkov, historic settlement of federal importance
Old Town of Toropets, historic settlement of federal importance
Old Town of Yelets, historic settlement of federal importance
Old Town of Torzhok, historic settlement of federal importance
Old Town of Gorokhovets, historic settlement of federal importance
Old Town of Galich, historic settlement of federal importance
Old Town of Kineshma, historic settlement of federal importance
Old Town of Plyos, historic settlement of federal importance
Old Town of Shuya, historic settlement of federal importance
Old Town of Krapivna, historic settlement of federal importance
Old Town of Zaraysk, historic settlement of federal importance
Old Town of Kasimov, historic settlement of federal importance
Old Town of Yegoryevsk
Old Town of Kaluga
Old Town of Rybinsk
Old Town of Zvenigorod and Zvenigorod Kremlin
Old Town of Dmitrov
Old Town of Sergiyev Posad
Old Town of Bezhetsk
Old Town of Kalyazin
Old Town of Myshkin
Old Town of Buy
Old Town of Palekh
Old Town of Yuryevets
Old Town of Gus-Khrustalny
Old Town of Serpukhov and Serpukhov Kremlin
Old Town of Borovsk
Old Town of Tarusa
Old Town of Belyov
Old Town of Skopin
Old Town of Pronsk
Old Town of Kadom
Old Town of Oryol
Old Town of Ostrogozhsk
Old Town of Roslavl
Old Town of Vyazma
Golden Ring of Russia
- Old Murom
- Old Kostroma
- Old Suzdal
- Old Vladimir
- Old Rostov Velikiy
- Old Uglich

Volga Federal District

Historic center of Kazan and the Kazan Kremlin
Historic center of Nizhny Novgorod and the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin
Historic center of Saratov
Historic center of Orenburg
Historic center of Samara
Historic center of Kirov
Old Town of Volsk, historic settlement of federal importance
Old Town of Arzamas, historic settlement of federal importance
Old Town of Yelabuga, historic settlement of federal importance
Old Town of Chistopol, historic settlement of federal importance
Old Town of Bolgar
Old Town of Gorodets
Old Town of Sarov

Northwestern Federal District

Historic center of Pskov and Pskov Kremlin
Historic center of Vyborg
Historic center of Vologda
Historic center of Arkhangelsk
Old Town of Kargopol, historic settlement of federal importance
Old Town of Staraya Russa, historic settlement of federal importance
Old Town of Belozersk, historic settlement of federal importance
Old Town of Veliky Ustyug, historic settlement of federal importance
Old Town of Totma, historic settlement of federal importance
Old Town of Solvychegodsk, historic settlement of federal importance
Old Town of Petrozavodsk
Old Town of Gatchina
Old Town of Syktyvkar
Russian East Prussia (Kaliningrad Oblast)
- Old Königsberg or Kaliningrad (Amalienau district)
- Old Tilsit (Sovyetsk)
- Old Insterburg (Chernyakhovsk)
- Old Rauschen (Svetlogorsk)
- Old Kranz (Zelenogradsk)
- Old Gumbinnen (Gusev)
- Old Tapiau (Gvardeysk)

Southern Federal District

Historic center of Rostov-on-Don
Historic center of Krasnodar
Historic center of Volgograd
Historic center of Astrakhan and Astrakhan kremlin
Old Town of Azov, historic settlement of federal importance
Old Town of Taganrog, historic settlement of federal importance
Old Town of Yeysk
Old Town of Maykop
Old Town of Uryupinsk
Old Town of Armavir

North Caucasian Federal District

Historic center of Vladikavkaz
Historic center of Pyatigorsk
Historic center of Stavropol
Old Town of Kislovodsk
Old Town of Georgievsk

Ural Federal District

Historic center of Yekaterinburg
Historic center of Tyumen
Old Town of Verkhoturye, historic settlement of federal importance
Old Town of Tobolsk and Tobolsk Kremlin

Siberian Federal District

Historic center of Tomsk, historic settlement of federal importance
Historic center of Irkutsk, historic settlement of federal importance
Historic center of Krasnoyarsk
Historic center of Omsk
Old Town of Yeniseysk, historic settlement of federal importance

Far Eastern Federal District

Historic center of Vladivostok
Historic center of Blagoveshchensk
Historic center of Khabarovsk
Old Town of Kyakhta, historic settlement of federal importance
Old Town of Nerchinsk
Old Town of Chita
Old Town of Komsomolsk-on-Amur

Serbia

Stari Grad, a neighborhood in Novi Sad
Petrovaradin suburb
, Sremski Karlovci - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance
, Kikinda - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance
, Zrenjanin - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance
, Bečej - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance
, Sombor - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance
, Pančevo - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance
, Subotica - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance
, Sremska Mitrovica - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance
, Zemun - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance
Stari Grad, a municipality in Belgrade
, Grocka, Belgrade - Two quarters of Old City are a Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance
Tešnjar, Valjevo - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance
, 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
, Negotin - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance
Old Town of Prizren
Old Bazaar of Đakovica

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
Old Town of Geneva
Old Town of Solothurn
Old Town of Basel
Zürich, District 1

Turkey

UNESCO

Istanbul, Historic Peninsula (Fatih district), UNESCO World Heritage site
Bursa, Historic city center, UNESCO World Heritage site
Cumalıkızık, UNESCO World Heritage site
Safranbolu, UNESCO World Heritage site

Aegan region

Old Town of Foça
Old Town of Alaçatı
Old Town of Çeşme
Old Town of Sığacık
Şirince
Old Town of Doğanbey
Birgi
Old Town of Bodrum
Old Town of Marmaris
Old Town of
Old Town of Buldan
Old Town of Babadağ
Old Town of Kula
Old Town of Kütahya
Old Town of Afyonkarahisar

Black Sea Region

Old Town of Göynük
Mudurnu
Old Town of Akçakoca
Old Town of Kastamonu
Amasya, Historic city center
Old Town of Bartın
Old Town of Tokat

Central Anatolia Region

Ankara, Historic city center (Altındağ district)
Eskişehir, Historic city district (Odunpazarı district)
Konya, Historic city district
Kayseri, Historic city district
Old Town of Çankırı
Beypazarı
Old Town of Sivrihisar
Old Town of Güzelyurt
Old Town of Niğde
Cappadocia (UNESCO World Heritage site)
- Old Avanos
- Old Çavuşin
- Old Uçhisar
- Old Ürgüp
- Old Mustafapaşa
- Old Ortahisar

Eastern Anatolia Region

Malatya, Historic city district (Yeşilyurt district)
Old Kemaliye
Old Town of Bitlis
Old Malatya (Battalgazi)
Old Town of Çukurca
Old Town of Kars

Marmara Region

Old Town of Edirne
Old Town of Çanakkale
Old Town of Mudanaya
Bozcaada
Old Town of Osmaneli
Old Taraklı
Old Town of İzmit

Mediterranean Region

Antalya, Historic city district (Kaleiçi)
Adana, Historic city district (Tepebağ)
Old City of Antakya
Old Town of Tarsus
Old Town of Alanya
Kaleköy
Ormana

Southeastern Anatolia Region

Gaziantep, Historic city district (Bey Mahallesi)
Old Urfa
Harran
Old Town of Uludere
Tur Abdin Region
- Old Town of Mardin
- Old Town of Midyat
- Iwardo
- Dayro da-Slibo
- Anhel

Ukraine

Stare Misto in Lviv, UNESCO World Heritage site
Old Odesa, UNESCO World Heritage site
Old Kyiv
Old Kamianets-Podilskyi
Old Kharkiv
Old Chernivtsi
Old Uzhhorod
Old Chernihiv
Old Ternopil

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, hamlet near Mansergh, Cumbria
Old Town, Eastbourne
Old Town, Hastings
Old Town, Isles of Scilly
Old Town, Kingston upon Hull
Old Town, hamlet near Otterburn, 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

Wales

Holyhead Old Town, a townscape heritage conservation area with the best surviving Roman Fort in Wales

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
Old Jeddah

Syria

Ancient City of Aleppo, in Syria
Ancient City of Bosra, in Syria
Ancient City of Damascus in Syria
Old Tartus

Yemen

Old City of Sana'a in Yemen
Old Walled City of Shibam in Yemen
Zabīd in Yemen

Iran

Historical Center in Yazd, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Historical Center in Isfahan, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Historical City of Masuleh
Historical City of Meybod
Old Abyaneh

Iraq

Erbil citadel
Old Mosul
Old Baghdad
Old Basra

North America

Canada

Quebec

Historic District of Old Quebec, Quebec, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Old Montreal, Quebec

Other

Old Town Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Old Town, Toronto, Ontario
Old Town Victoria

Cuba

Old Havana, a UNESCO World heritage Site

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

Pueblo de Los Ángeles
Old Town Eureka
Historic Center of San Francisco
Old Town Oakland
Old Town Nevada City
Old Solvang
Old Ferndale
Old Julian
Old Town Pasadena
Old Sacramento
Old Town, San Diego and Old Town San Diego State Historic Park

Florida

Old St. Augustine
Old Town Fernandina
Old Town, Key West

Maryland

Historic center of Baltimore (Old West Baltimore, North Central Historic District), Maryland
Old Annapolis, Maryland
Olde Towne Gaithersburg, Maryland

New Mexico

Old Town Albuquerque
Old Town Taos
Historic Center of Santa Fe
Old Silver City

New York

Historic center of New York, New York
Old Town, Staten Island, New York

Northeastern United States

Historic center of Boston (North End, Back Bay and Beacon Hill), Massachusetts
Historic center of Philadelphia (Chestnut Hill, Old City), Pennsylvania
Old Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Old Burlington, Vermont
Old New Haven, Connecticut
Old Portland, Maine
Old Town Jersey City, New Jersey
Old Town Salem, Massachusetts
New Castle, Delaware

North Carolina

Old Town Beaufort
Old Town Blowing Rock
Old Town Asheville

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

Historic center of Richmond
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 Lansing, Michigan
Old Town Chinatown, Portland, Oregon
Fairhaven, the oldest part of Bellingham, Washington

South America

Argentina

San Telmo and La Boca in Buenos Aires
Old Salta
Old Ushuaia

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

**Pátio do Colégio** *(left)* and surrounding historic buildings in São Paulo

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
Old Cartagena

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

References

"Staro jezgro Zrenjanina proglašeno za zaštićenu prostorno kulturno-istorijsku celinu". 17 June 2021. Archived from the original on 13 September 2021. Retrieved 13 September 2021.
"Neighbourhood: Old Town". Tourism Toronto. Archived from the original on 18 September 2016. Retrieved 6 September 2016.

External links

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[1] "Staro jezgro Zrenjanina proglašeno za zaštićenu prostorno kulturno-istorijsku celinu". 17 June 2021. Archived from the original on 13 September 2021. Retrieved 13 September 2021.

[2] "Neighbourhood: Old Town". Tourism Toronto. Archived from the original on 18 September 2016. Retrieved 6 September 2016.