Walled cities
Cities with their city walls still (almost) complete.
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Ahmadabad | The city walls are 10.97 km in length and include 12 original gates (AB ev) | |
| Angkor | Angkor Thom | |
| Assisi | ||
| Avignon | Fully enclosed within city walls from various ages, some of them being part of the WHS | |
| Avila | ||
| Bahla Fort | the inscription includes partial ruined 12 km city wall with 15 gates and 132 watchtowers | |
| Bardejov Town | Over 50% complete and important part of the inscription | |
| Caceres | ||
| Cartagena | ||
| Causses and Cévennes | La Couvertoirade | |
| Cuenca | ||
| Damascus | ||
| Diyarbakir Fortress and Hevsel Gardens | ||
| Dubrovnik | ||
| Elvas | Completely walled | |
| Erbil Citadel | ||
| Ferrara | ||
| Fortifications of Vauban | Besancon, Villefranche-de-Conflent etc. | |
| Fortified City of Carcassonne | ||
| Ghadames | ||
| Gwynedd Castles | ||
| Harar Jugol | ||
| Hatra | ||
| Hué | ||
| Hwaseong Fortress | ||
| Ibiza | Alta Vila (old city) | |
| Istanbul | Theodosian walls | |
| Itchan Kala | ||
| Kairouan | "The walls are 3.8km long and 4 to 8 m high and have many gates like Bab Tunis, Bab Jalladine, and Bab el-Khukha." | |
| Kazan Kremlin | ||
| Koguryo Kingdom | "Wandu Mountain City was one of the capitals of the Koguryo. It is surrounded by stone walls, following topography lines and has seven gates." - Nomination File | |
| Kotor | ||
| M'Zab Valley | "Each of these citadels, encircled by walls...." (AB). | |
| Mantua and Sabbioneta | Sabbioneta | |
| Mazagan | It's inside a (largely intact) citadel | |
| Medina of Essaouira | "The entire town was enclosed by a defensive wall on the Vauban model." (AB ev) | |
| Medina of Fez | ||
| Medina of Marrakesh | ||
| Medina of Sousse | The boundaries of the property correspond to the surrounding wall of the town (AB ev) | |
| Meknes | ||
| Mount Wuyi | Han city of Chengcun: "a walled city enclosing some 48ha of uneven land. The circuit of walls survives intact" (AB ev) | |
| Novgorod | ||
| Old City of Jerusalem | ||
| Old Town of Galle | ||
| Ping Yao | ||
| Provins | ||
| Québec | ||
| Rhodes | The medieval city is located within a 4 km-long wall (AB ev) | |
| Roman Walls of Lugo | ||
| Rome | Aurelian Walls | |
| Route of Santiago de Compostela | The Roman Walls of Lugo | |
| San Gimignano | ||
| San Marino and Mount Titano | ||
| Sana'a | ||
| Shibam | ||
| Siena | ||
| Sighisoara | ||
| Spissky Hrad and Levoca | Levoca | |
| Sukhothai | ||
| Tallinn | ||
| Tarraco | ||
| Toledo | ||
| Upper Middle Rhine Valley | Bacharach and Oberwesel | |
| Urbino | "the historic centre is defined by its Renaissance walls that survive virtually intact, complete with bastions." (Official description) | |
| Val d'Orcia | Monticchiello almost entirely preserves its walls which enclose the entire urban center and takes position on the fortress placed on the top of the hill. (Nomination file, p. 103-104) | |
| Valletta | ||
| Vatican City | "a walled enclave within the city of Rome", but it is not entirely surrounded by walls anymore. | |
| Venetian Works of Defence | Kotor | |
| Verona | ||
| Visby | ||
| Volubilis | AB: ?the ancient town is well defined by the remains of its walls, stretching for 2.35 km and visible for most of that length? | |
| Walled City of Baku | ||
| Úbeda and Baeza | Ubeda |
Suggestions?
Do you know of another WHS we could connect to Walled cities?
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