Urban landscape, Urban continuity

Berat and Gjirokastra
The Historic Centres of Berat and Gjirokastra are both well-preserved Ottoman towns, decorated with outstanding examples of kule: Balkan-Ottoman style tower houses.
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Caceres
The old town of Caceres is renowned for its well-preserved 12th century Arab city walls (notably the Torre Mochada and Torre del Bujaco).
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City of Bath
The City of Bath, in Roman times known as Aquae Sulis, was added because of the exceptional value of the historic and monumental ensemble of its city.
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Cordoba
The Historic Centre of Cordoba comprises its Mosque-Cathedral and surrounding quarters, a testimony to its blossoming during the islamic Caliphate of Cordoba.
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Corfu
The Old Town of Corfu is noted for its defence system dating from the Venetian period. It also has preserved its remarkable (British) Neoclassical housing of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Damascus
Damascus is often referred to as the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world. Damascus has a wealth of historical sites dating back to many different periods of the city's history.
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Edinburgh
Old and New Towns of Edinburgh comprise the medieval Old City with its castle, and the planned extension of the New City.
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Evora
The Historic Centre of Evora is exemplary for the Golden Age of Portugal, and strongly influenced Portuguese architecture in Brazil.
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Graz
The City of Graz - Historic Centre and Schloss Eggenberg is recognized due to the harmonious co-existence of typical buildings from different epochs and in different architectural styles.
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Istanbul
The Historic Areas of Istanbul hold unique monuments from the Byzantine and Ottoman civilizations. Istanbul's history is a very long one: already in 395 (then named Constantinopel) the city was made capital of the Eastern Roman Empire.
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Kasbah of Algiers
The Kasbah of Algiers was founded on the ruins of old Icosium, a Phoenician commercial outpost called which later developed into a small Roman town.
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L'viv
L'viv - the Ensemble of the Historic Centre represents a crossing point of cultures and architectural traditions.
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Lyon
Lyon has been a flourishing trading city since Roman times. It owes that continuous prosperity to its strategic location at the confluence of the Rhône and Saône rivers.
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Matera
The Sassi and the park of the Rupestrian Churches of Matera are the best surviving and most complete examples of rock-cut settlement in the Mediterranean region.
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Mexico City
The Historic Centre of Mexico City and Xochimilco represent both highlights of Aztec civilization and the Spanish-colonial New World between the 14th and 19th centuries.
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Naples
The Historic Centre of Naples has its individual masterpieces, a classical town layout and is associated with many events and individuals of great importance in the early history of Christianity.
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Ohrid Region
The Natural and cultural heritage of the Ohrid Region comprises the ancient city of Ohrid and nearby Lake Ohrid.
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Old City of Acre
The Old City of Acre has been designated a WHS because of its Crusader buildings and its Ottoman walled town.
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Old City of Jerusalem
The Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls has high religious value as a holy city for Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
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Oporto
The Historic Centre of Oporto is a commercial port that has been looking to the west for its trade for over 1000 years.
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Prague
The Historic Centre of Prague played a prominent role in medieval Central Europe. It has seen continuous urban development from the Middle Ages to the present, resulting in an architectural ensemble of outstanding quality.
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Rabat
“Rabat, modern capital and historic city, a shared heritage” shows different construction phases from the Almohad period (12th century) up to the present day.
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Rome
The Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights and San Paolo Fuori le Mura comprise major monuments of Roman antiquity and papal history.
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Salamanca
The Old City of Salamanca covers an ancient university town with groups of buildings in the Churrigueresque style.
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Salzburg
The Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg with its world famous baroque architecture is one of the best-preserved examples of an European ecclesiastical city-state.
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Sana'a
The Old City of Sana'a (with over 2.000 years of history) presents an unique homogeneous architectural ensemble.
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Segovia
The Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct is a historic town with an excellently preserved civil engineering work from the Roman period ca.
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Split
The Historic Complex of Split with the Palace of Diocletian is both an archeological and an urbanistic monument that has been in use from Roman times.
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Stone Town of Zanzibar
The Stone Town of Zanzibar is a well-preserved example of a Swahili coastal trading center. Stone Town is the old part of Zanzibar City, built on a triangular peninsula of land on the western coast of the island.
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The trulli of Alberobello
The trulli of Alberobello are an exceptional example of a building technique that has survived from prehistoric times until to date.
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Toledo
The Historic City of Toledo holds a cultural and monumental heritage of several historic civilizations.
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Venice and its Lagoon
Venice and its Lagoon is a unique achievement of art, architecture and struggle against the elements.
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Verona
The City of Verona is renowned for its military defensive architecture. The city’s history spans more than 2000 years: already in the first century BCE a Roman colony was established at this strategic spot.
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Walled City of Baku
The Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah's Palace and Maiden Tower is an old town, which is also a fortress.
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Warsaw
The Historic Centre of Warsaw is a near-total reconstruction of a city center from the 13th to 20th centuries.
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