Five different sets of walls have been built around the city of Constantinople, the most important of which was the last, built under the reign of Theodosius II, who came to power in 408 AD. Also ...

In the city's long history, the earliest walls were built in Zhongdu, capital of the Jin Dynasty. At that time more than one million civilians and soldiers toiled for three years to expand the old ...

Even better is that most of the walls and city have been restored ... It's a wonder any of it remains at all, much less the substantial amount that made the entire Old Town a UNESCO World Heritage ...

The first thing you'll see as you approach Dubrovnik from the sky or the sea is the city walls. These ancient fortifications were built and rebuilt in the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries as the ...