Roman walls or Roman wall may refer to:
- Limes, a border defense or delimiting system of Ancient Rome
- Servian Wall, a wall built around Rome in the 4th century BC
- Aurelian Walls, the later wall of Rome, built in the late 3rd century AD
- York city walls, walls built around York when it was a Roman colony
- Hadrian's Wall, a wall built in England at the edge of Roman conquest to keep out the Scots
- Walls of Constantinople, a great defensive wall that kept various invaders until the Ottoman bombardment that render them useless, but defended the metropolitan capital during the fourth century C.E. till 1453
- Anastasian Wall, a wall built by the eastern roman emperor to ensure extra defenses for Constantinople
- Roman Walls of Lugo
- London Wall
- Chester city walls
Famous quotes containing the words walls of, walls and/or rome:
“The night in prison was novel and interesting enough.... I found that even here there was a history and a gossip which never circulated beyond the walls of the jail. Probably this is the only house in the town where verses are composed, which are afterward printed in a circular form, but not published. I was shown quite a long list of verses which were composed by some young men who had been detected in an attempt to escape, who avenged themselves by singing them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.”
—Italo Calvino (1923–1985)
“I foresee the time when the painter will paint that scene, no longer going to Rome for a subject; the poet will sing it; the historian record it; and, with the Landing of the Pilgrims and the Declaration of Independence, it will be the ornament of some future national gallery, when at least the present form of slavery shall be no more here. We shall then be at liberty to weep for Captain Brown. Then, and not till then, we will take our revenge.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)