List of Walls - Ancient and Medieval Walls

Ancient and Medieval Walls

  • Anastasian Wall in Turkey
  • Antonine Wall in Scotland, United Kingdom - part of UNESCO site 430
  • Aurelian Walls of Rome
  • Ávila Walls, Spain - UNESCO site 348
  • Barcelona Walls, Spain
  • Basel City Walls in Basel, Switzerland
  • Cairo great wall, Egypt
  • Cheolli Jangseong, North Korea and China
  • Chester city walls in England, United Kingdom
  • Conwy town walls in Wales, United Kingdom
  • Danevirke, Denmark
  • Derry city walls, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
  • Diyarbakır city walls, Turkey.
  • Walls of Dubrovnik in Croatia - part of UNESCO site 95
  • The Great Wall of China, China - part of UNESCO site 438, (World's longest wall)
  • Walls of Constantinople in Turkey, including the Constantinian and Theodosian Walls
  • Erdene Zuu monastery wall in Mongolia - part of UNESCO site 1081
  • King's Wall and Flodden Wall, in Edinburgh, Scotland (built c.1425–1560), part of UNESCO site 728
  • Roman limes in Upper Germania, Lower Germania and Rhaetia, Germany - part of UNESCO site 430
  • Great Wall of Gorgan in Iran, (World's second longest wall)
  • Hadrian's Wall in England - part of UNESCO site 430
  • Walls of Jericho
  • Jerusalem's Old City walls - part of UNESCO site 148
  • Walls of Kumbhalgarh in Rajasthan, India
  • Kremlin Wall in Moscow, Russia
  • London Wall in England, United Kingdom
  • Roman Walls of Lugo, Spain - part of UNESCO site 987
  • Arabic Walls of Niebla, Spain
  • Intramuros Walls, Manila, Philippines
  • Paczków defensive wall, Poland
  • Long Walls linking the port of Piraeus to Athens, Greece
  • Serpent's Wall, the ancient walls in Ukraine
  • Servian Wall, in Rome
  • Silesia Walls, Poland
  • Trajan's Wall, in Dobruja, Romania
  • Visby Ringwall, Gotland, Sweden - part of UNESCO site 731
  • Western Wall in Jerusalem (also called the Wailing Wall, Kotel HaMa'aravi, and Al-Buraq Wall)
  • City Wall of Xi'an in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China
  • York city walls in England, United Kingdom
  • Walls of Ston in Ston, Croatia

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