The world's old towns
Every old town in our write-ups, all 638 of them, grouped by continent. Each card opens the full page: what it is, its best season, time to allow and how to reach it.
Europe 241
Berat
Andorra la Vella
Graz Old Town
Cesky Krumlov
Tallinn Old Town
Tartu Old Town
Kirkjubøur
Old Rauma
Colmar
Nice and the French Riviera
Rocamadour
Saint-Malo
Sarlat-la-Caneda
Strasbourg Grande Ile
Bamberg Old Town
Dresden and the Frauenkirche
Gorlitz Old Town
Goslar Old Town
Lubeck Old Town
Munich and Marienplatz
Quedlinburg Old Town
Regensburg Old Town
Rothenburg ob der Tauber
Stralsund Old Town
Bergamo Alta
Bologna
Civita di Bagnoregio
Lecce
Mantua and Sabbioneta
Matera
Modena and Parma
Orvieto
San Gimignano
Siena
St Mark's Square and Basilica
Syracuse and Ortigia
The Grand Canal
The Trulli of Alberobello
The Val di Noto
Turin
Urbino
Kuldiga Old Town
Kaunas Modernist Architecture
Kotor Old Town
The Amsterdam Canals
Ohrid
Krakow Old Town
Banska Stiavnica
Caceres Old Town
Cuenca and the Hanging Houses
Ronda
Salamanca Old Town
San Cristobal de La Laguna
Santiago de Compostela
Toledo Old Town
Bath
Cambridge
Chester
Edinburgh
Oxford
The Cotswolds
York
Gjirokaster
Tirana
Bregenz Oberstadt
Feldkirch
Hall in Tirol
Hallstatt
Innsbruck and the Golden Roof
Klagenfurt Old Town
Rattenberg
Salzburg Old Town
St Polten Old Town
Steyr Old Town
Villach Old Town
Grodno
Minsk
Antwerp
Bruges
Dinant
Ghent
Leuven
The Grand-Place, Brussels
Počitelj
Sarajevo
Travnik
Trebinje
Koprivshtitsa
Nessebar
Plovdiv Old Town
Sofia
Veliko Tarnovo
Dubrovnik Old Town
Hum and the Glagolitic Alley
Motovun and the Istrian Hill Towns
Rastoke
Rovinj
Trogir
Tvrđa, the Baroque Quarter of Osijek
Varaždin Old Town
Zagreb and the Upper Town
Limassol
Nicosia
Brno Old Town
Frantiskovy Lazne
Holasovice
Karlovy Vary
Marianske Lazne
Mikulov
Olomouc
Plzen Old Town
Prague Old Town
Telc
Trebic Jewish Quarter and Saint Procopius Basilica
Znojmo
Christiansfeld
Nyhavn
Ribe Old Town
Altja Fishing Village
Viljandi
Saksun
Tórshavn
Alvar Aalto's Jyvaskyla
Porvoo Old Town
Aix-en-Provence
Bordeaux Old Town
Dijon Old Town
Le Mans Old Town
Troyes
Augsburg Old Town
Esslingen am Neckar
Freiburg Old Town
Füssen Old Town
Konstanz Old Town
Landsberg am Lech
Landshut Old Town
Passau Old Town
Wasserburg am Inn
Main Street and the Old Town
Chania Old Town
Corfu Old Town
Nafplio
Rhodes Old Town
The Plaka
Thessaloniki Ano Poli
Xanthi Old Town
St Peter Port
Eger
Gyor Old Town
Holloko
Nedstikaupstadur, Isafjordur
Seydisfjordur Old Town
Waterford Viking Triangle
Gjakova Old Bazaar
Pristina
Prizren
Riga Art Nouveau District
Riga Old Town
Vaduz
Uzupis
Vilnius Old Town
Echternach
Luxembourg City
Mdina
The Three Cities
Valletta
Chișinău
Cetinje
Perast
Sveti Stefan
Delft
Deventer
Dordrecht
Giethoorn
Haarlem
Leiden
Maastricht
Middelburg
Thorn
Utrecht Old Town
Kruševo
Skopje
Alesund Art Nouveau Town
Bryggen
Roros
Bielsko-Biala Old Town
Gdansk Old Town
Kazimierz Dolny
Klodzko Old Town
Opole Old Town
Plock Old Town
Poznan Old Market Square
Przemysl Old Town
Sandomierz Old Town
Tarnow Old Town
Torun Old Town
Warsaw Old Town
Wroclaw Market Square
Zamosc Old Town
Angra do Heroismo
Evora
Funchal Old Town
Guimaraes Historic Centre
Lisbon and the Alfama
Monsanto Village
Obidos
Porto and the Ribeira
Brasov
Cluj-Napoca
Sibiu
Sighisoara
Suzdal
The City of San Marino
Belgrade and Kalemegdan
Novi Sad and Petrovaradin
Subotica
Bardejov
Bratislava Old Town
Čičmany
Levoča
Vlkolinec
Ljubljana Old Town
Piran
Ptuj
Barcelona Gothic Quarter and Las Ramblas
Longyearbyen
Pyramiden
Gammelstad Church Town
Karlskrona
Stockholm Gamla Stan
Visby
Bern Old Town
Geneva Old Town
Lucerne
Murten
Saint-Ursanne
Solothurn Old Town
Stein am Rhein
Zurich Old Town
Lviv Old Town
Odesa
Asia 129
Baku and the Old City
Akko Old City
Higashiyama and Gion, Kyoto
Kakunodate Samurai District
Kurashiki Bikan Historical Quarter
As-Salt
Luang Prabang
George Town, Penang
Bhaktapur
Kaesong
Jiufen
Baucau
Bukhara
The Old City of Sana'a
Herat Old City
Gyumri
Yerevan
Khinalug
Lahij
Sheki
Manama
Old Dhaka
Thimphu
Kampong Ayer
Battambang
Historic Quanzhou
Lijiang Old Town
Pingyao Ancient City
Shanghai and the Bund
Wuzhen
Xidi and Hongcun Villages
Zhouzhuang Water Town
Kutaisi
Mtskheta
Svaneti and Ushguli
Tbilisi Old Town
Tai O Fishing Village
Fort Kochi
Jaipur, the Pink City
Jaisalmer and the Thar Desert
Varanasi and the Ganges
Braga Street
Kota Lama, Semarang
Kota Tua, Jakarta
Sawahlunto and the Ombilin Mines
Ubud
Kandovan
Kashan Historic Houses
Yazd
Amedi
Erbil Citadel
Tel Aviv and Jaffa
The Old City of Jerusalem
Hida-Furukawa
Kawagoe
Sawara
Shirakawa-go
Takayama Old Town
Tsumago, Magome and the Nakasendo Trail
Uchiko
Amman
Almaty
Souq Mubarakiya
Beirut
Byblos
Tripoli
Taipa and Coloane
The Historic Centre of Macau
Ipoh Old Town
Malacca (Melaka)
Old Kuching and the Waterfront
Malé
Ulaanbaatar
Mandalay
Bandipur
Kathmandu and Durbar Square
Misfat Al Abriyeen
Muscat and Mutrah
Lahore
Hebron Old Town
The Old City of Nablus
Manila and Intramuros
Silay Heritage Houses
Taal Heritage Town
Vigan
Souq Waqif
Diriyah
Jeddah and Al-Balad
Rijal Almaa
Riyadh
Chinatown, Little India and Kampong Glam
The Singapore River and its Quays
Bukchon Hanok Village
Busan and Gamcheon Culture Village
Jeonju Hanok Village
Naganeupseong Walled Village
Seongeup Folk Village
Yangdong Folk Village
Jaffna
The Old City of Aleppo
The Old City of Damascus
Beipu
Hengchun Old Town
Lukang
Qinbi Village, Matsu
Shuitou Village, Kinmen
Tainan
Tamsui
Khujand
Chiang Mai Old City
Lopburi Old Town
Phuket Old Town
Dili
Amasya
Mardin Old Town
Safranbolu
Al Fahidi Historic District
Khiva
Samarkand and the Registan
Tashkent
Dong Van Old Quarter
Duong Lam Ancient Village
Hanoi and the Old Quarter
Hanoi's French Quarter
Ho Chi Minh City
Hoi An Old Town
Al-Mukalla
Shibam
The Old Walled City of Zabid
Africa 89
The Casbah of Algiers
Bujumbura
Yaoundé
Cidade Velha
Berberati
N'Djamena
Moroni
Djibouti City
Kinshasa
Bata
Asmara
Libreville
Conakry
Bolama
Grand-Bassam
Monrovia
Antananarivo Haute Ville
Chinguetti
Petite-Terre and Mamoudzou
Ait Benhaddou
Island of Mozambique
Agadez
Brazzaville
São Tomé Town and the Roças
Gorée Island
Victoria and Mahé
Juba
Aneho
Livingstone
Constantine
Oran
The M'Zab Valley
Luanda
Ganvié
Porto-Novo
Ouagadougou
Bangui
Mutsamudu Medina
Tadjoura
Islamic Cairo
Malabo
Keren
Massawa
Harar
Janjanbureh
Accra
Nzulezo
Kankan
Bissau
Abidjan
Lamu Old Town
Ghadames
Ghat
The Medina of Tripoli
Segou
Timbuktu
Oualata
Chefchaouen
Essaouira
Moulay Idriss Zerhoun
The Art Deco Centre of Casablanca
The Asilah Medina
The Fes Medina
The Marrakech Medina
The Tetouan Medina
Maputo
Kolmanskop
Lüderitz
Swakopmund
Windhoek
Niamey
Zinder
Lagos
Jamestown and Jacob's Ladder
Saint-Louis
Freetown
Mogadishu
Bo-Kaap
Wau
Bagamoyo
Stone Town, Zanzibar
Lomé
Kairouan
Matmata
Sidi Bou Said
The Medina of Sousse
The Medina of Tunis
Laâyoune
Smara
Americas 153
The Abaco Cays
Historic Bridgetown
The Town of St George
Potosi
Tortola and Road Town
Bodden Town
Cartagena Old Town
Camagüey
Willemstad
Cuenca
Cayenne
Nuuk
St. George's
Antigua
Georgetown
Grand'Riviere
Granada
Casco Viejo, Panama City
Arequipa
Gustavia
Anse La Raye
Île aux Marins
Blue Hills
Charleston Historic District
Freedom Trail
French Quarter
Santa Fe Plaza
Savannah Historic District
St Augustine
Taos Pueblo
The Moravian Settlement at Bethlehem
Colonia del Sacramento
The Valley and Heritage
Buenos Aires
Salta
Oranjestad
San Nicolas
Green Turtle Cay
Harbour Island
Nassau and Paradise Island
Spanish Wells
West End
Speightstown
Belize City
Belmopan
Corozal
Punta Gorda and Toledo
San Ignacio
Sarteneja
Hamilton
La Paz
Sucre
Ouro Preto
Paraty
Salvador and the Pelourinho
Dawson City
Old Montreal
Old Quebec
Old Town Lunenburg
St John's
The Plateau and Mount Royal
Kralendijk and Klein Bonaire
Oranjestad, Sint Eustatius
George Town
Santiago
Valdivia
Valparaiso
Barichara
Bogota and La Candelaria
Filandia
Giron
Jardin
Medellin
Mongui
Popayan Historic Centre
Santa Cruz de Mompox
Santa Fe de Antioquia
Santa Marta Historic Centre
Tunja Historic Centre
Villa de Leyva
Barrio Amón
Baracoa
Cienfuegos
Old Havana
Santiago de Cuba
Trinidad
Altos de Chavón
Puerto Plata's Victorian Town
Santiago de los Caballeros
The Colonial City of Santo Domingo
Guayaquil
Quito Old Town
Suchitoto
The Ruta de las Flores
Stanley
Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni
Flores
Quetzaltenango
Jacmel
Downtown Kingston
Falmouth
Lucea
Spanish Town
Guanajuato
Mérida
Mexico City Historic Centre
Morelia
Oaxaca Old Town
Pátzcuaro
Puebla
Querétaro
Real de Catorce
San Cristóbal de las Casas
San Miguel de Allende
Taxco
Tlacotalpan
Valladolid and its Cenotes
Zacatecas
León
Bocas Town
David and the Chiriquí Lowlands
Parita and the Azuero Towns
Asunción
Ayacucho's Historic Centre
Cajamarca's Colonial Centre
Cusco
Lima's Historic Centre
Trujillo's Colonial Centre
Barranquitas and the Cordillera Towns
Coamo
Old San Juan
Ponce
San Germán
Nevis
Castries
Soufrière
Vieux Fort
Marigot
Miquelon Village
The Town of Saint-Pierre
Kingstown and Saint Vincent
Marigot and the French Side
Philipsburg
Paramaribo
Cockburn Town
Grand Turk
South Caicos
Charlotte Amalie, St Thomas
Christiansted
Cruz Bay
Frenchtown
St Croix and its Danish Heritage
Montevideo
Oceania 26
Leone
Levuka
Majuro
Yaren District
Nouméa
Akaroa
Adamstown and Bounty Bay
Apia and Vailima
