Urban landscape, Medieval European

Assisi
Assisi is the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208.
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Avignon
Avignon is probably best known for its Palais des Papes (Palace of the Popes), where the Popes lived for much of the 14th century.
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Ávila
Northwest of Madrid lies the city of Ávila. Its medieval walls are the best preserved ones in Spain. They date from 1090, and today are 2,5 km.
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Bamberg
Bamberg is a town in Bavaria, Germany. From the 10th century onwards, its town layout and architecture has been a great influence in Central Europe.
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Banska Stiavnica
Banská Štiavnica is a town in central Slovakia, in the middle of an immense caldera created by the collapse of an ancient volcano.
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Bardejov Town
Bardejov is a town in North-Eastern Slovakia. The spa town, mentioned for the first time in 1241, exhibits numerous cultural monuments in its completely intact medieval town centre.
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Brugge
Brugge or Bruges is a well-preserved city in the west of Belgium. It was founded in the 9th century by Vikings.
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Budapest
The Budapest World Heritage Site consists of three parts: 1. Buda Castle Quarter This holds the city's medieval sites, with Buda Castle.
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Ceský Krumlov
Český Krumlov ("Bohemian Krumlov") is a small city in the Czech Republic, best known for the fine architecture and art of the historic old town and Krumlov Castle.
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Cracow
Cracow was on Unesco's first World Heritage List, publicized in 1978. This city in the south east of Poland was founded in 1257.
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Cuenca
Cuenca is located in the Sierra, the highlands of Ecuador at about 2500m (8200 ft) above sea level. The city's cobblestone streets, towering cathedrals, and marble and whitewashed buildings give it a colonial air.
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Fortified City of Carcassonne
Carcassonne is a fortified French town. The fortress was thoroughly restored from 1853 by the theorist and architect Eugčne Viollet-le-Duc.
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Gammelstad
Gammelstad Church Town is situated near the city of Luleĺ, at the northern end of the Gulf of Bothnia.
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Granada
The Alhambra, Generalife and Albayzín in Granada are exceptional reminders of Moorish Spain. In the 8th century the Islamic Moors of Northern Africa had conquered most of the Iberian Peninsula.
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Guimarăes
The historic town of Guimarăes is associated with the creation of the Portuguese national identity in the twelfth century.
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Kotor
The old Mediterranean port of Kotor, surrounded by an impressive city wall built by House of Nemanjić, is very well preserved and protected.
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Kutná Hora
Kutná Hora developed as a result of the exploitation of silver mines and in the 14th century became a royal city endowed with monuments that symbolized its prosperity.
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Medieval City of Rhodes
The citadel of Rhodes, built by the Hospitalliers, is one of the best preserved medieval towns in Europe which in 1988 was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Mudejar Architecture of Aragon
The Mudéjar Architecture of Aragon is the most outstanding example of Mudéjar art and architecture, the style of Iberian architecture and decoration strongly influenced by Moorish taste and workmanship.
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Novgorod
(Veliky) Novgorod is the foremost historic city of North-Western Russia. No other Russian or Ukrainian city can compete with Novgorod in the variety and age of its medieval monuments.
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Old City of Berne
Berne was founded in 1191 by Berchthold V, Duke of Zähringen. After a fire in 1405, which almost completely destroyed the wooden-built town, the houses where rebuilt of sandstone.
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Old City of Dubrovnik
The Old City of Dubrovnik is known for its monumental centre. Dubrovnik became an important Mediterranean sea power from the 13th century onwards.
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Oviedo
In the 9th century in the Kingdom of the Asturias an innovative pre-Romanesque architectural style was created that was to play a significant role in the development of the religious architecture of the peninsula.
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Provins
Provins is well-known for its medieval fortifications, such as the Tour César (Caesar Tower) and well preserved city walls.
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Quedlinburg
Quedlinburg is a town with medieval origins that has a large number of high quality timber-framed buildings.
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Rammelsberg and Goslar
The Rammelsberg mining complex was in continuous use for at least 1000 years, before it closed its doors in 1988 due to exhaustion.
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Regensburg
The large medieval center of Regensburg has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Regensburg had little damage from Allied air raids during World War II and thus has an almost intact medieval city center.
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Roman and Romanesque Monuments of Arles
Arles has important remains of Roman times, which have been listed as World Heritage Sites since 1981.
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San Gimignano
San Gimignano is a small walled medieval hill town in Tuscany. It is mainly famous for its medieval architecture, especially its towers, which may be seen from several miles outside the town.
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Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de Compostela became a symbol in the Spanish Christians' struggle against Islam. Destroyed by the Muslims at the end of the 10th century, it was completely rebuilt in the following century.
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Seville
The UNESCO Comittee named the Cathedral, the Alcazar and the Archivo de Indias as world heritages because of their testimony to the civilization of Christian Andalusia.
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Siena
The city of Siena (Tuscany) has been well preserved since the 12th and 13rd century. Its urban fabric, size and artistic identity distinguish Siena from other medieval urban centres in Italy.
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Sighisoara
Central Sighişoara has preserved in an exemplary way the features of a small medieval fortified city.
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Strasbourg-Grande îsle
The Cathedral and the Grande Ile of Strasbourg were added to the World Heritage List, because: - the Gothic Cathedral of Strasbourg is a unique artistic achievement; - the Cathedral of Strasbourg represents the eastward vector of the Gothic art movement.
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Tallinn
Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, is named after taani linnus, which means Danish castle. The Castle in question was built by King Waldemar of Denmark in the 13th century.
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Telc
Telc is a medieval planned town, preserving its original layout and the castle-settlement relationship very clearly.
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Torun
Torun World Heritage Site consists of three parts: the Old Town, the New Town and the Castle of the Teutonic Order.
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Town Hall and Roland, Bremen
Both Town Hall and Roland are prominently placed on the marketplace of the Hanzestadt Bremen. Bremen today still is an autonomous federal land, situated in north-western Germany.
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Upper Svaneti
Svaneti is a historic province in Georgia, in the northwestern part of the country. It is inhabited by the Svans, an ethnographic group of the Georgian people.
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Vienna
Vienna's inner city still is a living tribute to Habsburg times. This dynasty ruled most of Central Europe between 1273 and 1918.
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Vilnius
The Lithuanian capital Vilnius is a historic trading town with medieval origins. It is situated right on the boundary between Catholicism and Russian Orthodoxy.
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