Old town

Ipswich in Suffolk is the oldest town in England.

An old town of a city or town is its historic center or district. It is often the older town the newer parts were built around. It may also be an area built to resemble the older original town. Old towns usually have historical and architectural value that make them worth restoring. In Europe old towns are usually the medieval towns or villages that the newer city was built up around.^[1] Old towns may have cobblestone streets, old churches, and balconies hanging over narrow back streets.^[2] Because they are restrictive traffic traps many old town districts do not allow motor vehicles.^[3]

Old Town Media

Stralsund in Germany, an Altstadt regarded World Heritage Site status by UNESCO. European old towns are easily recognizable by their density, small alleys and buildings from different eras, often even going back to Gothic times.
The medieval timed old town of Porvoo in Finland, along the Porvoonjoki river in summer time.
Traditional houses with the Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Cross in the background, walled city of Nicosia.
A typical street in the old town of Limassol.
Piazza Erbe seen from the Lamberti tower
Rose Garden Palace , one of the Historic Buildings from Old Dhaka, Bangladesh
Jakarta old town. The stadhuis. This is a real my own work.
Komplek Keraton Kanoman Kota Cirebon, Provinsi Jawa Barat, Indonesia
Old town (Bukchon Hanok Village) in Seoul
Rank of Sino-Portuguese shophouses on both sides of the road in Phraeng Phuthon of Sam Phraeng within Rattanakosin Island

References

↑ Jan van Harssel; Richard H Jackson; Lloyd E. Hudman, National Geographic Learning's Visual Geography of Travel and Tourism (Boston, MA: National Geographic Learning; Stanford, CT: Cengage Learning, 2015), p. 305
↑ Aaron T. Brownell, The Long Path (Bloomington, IN: iUniverse Com, 2012), p. 105
↑ Ivan Berend, Case Studies on Modern European Economy (Oxford; New York: Routledge, 2013), p. 202

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[1] Jan van Harssel; Richard H Jackson; Lloyd E. Hudman, National Geographic Learning's Visual Geography of Travel and Tourism (Boston, MA: National Geographic Learning; Stanford, CT: Cengage Learning, 2015), p. 305

[2] Aaron T. Brownell, The Long Path (Bloomington, IN: iUniverse Com, 2012), p. 105

[3] Ivan Berend, Case Studies on Modern European Economy (Oxford; New York: Routledge, 2013), p. 202

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