thumb|upright=1.4|[[Stralsund in Germany, an old town designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. European old towns are often recognizable by their density, small alleys and buildings of different eras.]]

thumb|The medieval old town of [[Porvoo on the Porvoonjoki river, Finland]]

thumb|Traditional houses, with the Roman Catholic [[Church of the Holy Cross, Nicosia|Church of the Holy Cross in the background, in the walled city of Nicosia, Cyprus]]

thumb|upright|A street in the old town of [[Limassol, Cyprus]]

thumb|Historical centre of [[Verona, Italy]]

In a city or town, the old town is its historic or original core. Although the city is usually larger in its present form, many cities have redesignated this part of the city to commemorate its origins. In some cases, newer developments on the periphery of the original settlement may have become the town's principal commercial, administrative or residential hub, leaving the historic "old town" as a secondary focus. There are many places throughout the world referred to as the old town (sometimes construed as a proper noun and capitalized). This is a list of some famous old towns:

Africa

Algeria

  • Casbah of Algiers, UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Old Town of Constantine
  • Old Town of Oran
  • Old Béjaïa
  • Old Tlemcen

Egypt

  • Medieval Cairo, in Cairo, UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Old Rashid
  • Old Town of Alexandria

Ethiopia

  • Old Town of Harar, UNESCO World Heritage Site

Ivory Coast

  • Historic Town of Grand-Bassam, UNESCO World Heritage Site

Kenya

  • Lamu Old Town, UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Mombasa Old Town

Libya

  • Old Town of Ghadamès, UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Old Tripoli
  • Old Misrata

Mali

  • Historic Center of Timbuktu, UNESCO World Heritage Site

Morocco

  • Old Meknes, UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Old Essaouira, UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Old Fes, UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Old Marrakesh, UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Tétouan, UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • El Jadida, UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Old Tangier
  • Old Rabat
  • Old Asilah
  • Chefchaouen

Niger

  • Historic Center of Agadez, UNESCO World Heritage Site

Senegal

  • Historic Center of Saint-Louis, UNESCO World Heritage Site

Tanzania/Zanzibar

  • Stone Town in Zanzibar City, UNESCO World Heritage Site

Tunisia

  • Old Kairouan, UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Medina of Sousse, UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Medina of Tunis, UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Old Sfax

Asia and the Pacific

Australia

  • Old Town of Ballarat
  • Old Beechworth
  • Old Town of Fitzroy
  • Historic center of Sydney (The Rocks, Newtown)
  • Historic center of Melbourne (CBD)
  • Historic center of Hobart
  • Historic center of Adelaide

Bangladesh

  • Old Town in Dhaka, Old Dhaka
  • Sonargaon

Cambodia

  • French Quarter of Phnom Penh
  • French Quarter of Siem Reap
  • French Quarter of Kampot

China

thumb|Old Town of Lijiang

UNESCO World Heritage Sites

  • Historical centers of Xidi and Hongcun
  • Forbidden City and Old Town remnants of Beijing
  • Mountain Resort temple town in Chengde
  • Old Town of Pingyao
  • Old Town of Lijiang
  • Old Town of Qufu
  • Old Town of Kaiping
  • Historic Centre of Macau
  • Gulangyu

East China

thumb|Old Town of Qibao

  • Old Sanfang Qixiang
  • Old Town of Yongding
  • Ancient Town of Shaoxing
  • Ancient Town of Wuzhen
  • Ancient Town of Qibao
  • Ancient Town of Fengjing
  • Ancient Town of Nanxun
  • Ancient Town of Xitang
  • Ancient Town of Zhujiajiao
  • Ancient Town of Qiandeng
  • Ancient Town of Jinxi
  • Ancient Town of Luzhi
  • Ancient Town of Zhouzhuang
  • Ancient Town of Tongli
  • Ancient Town of Mudu
  • Ancient Town of Suzhou
  • Ancient Town of Tunxi
  • Walled old town area of Nanjing

thumb|Street in the Dali Ancient City

Southwestern China

  • Old Town and Potala Palace of Lhasa
  • Dali Ancient City
  • Pingle Ancient Town
  • Heshun
  • Ancient Town of Zhenyuan
  • Ancient Town of Ciqikou
  • Ancient Town of Lizhuang
  • Ancient Town of Liujiangzhen
  • Ancient Town of Shangli
  • Ancient Town of Luodai
  • Ancient Town of Jiezi

thumb|Street in the Old Town of Kashgar

Northwestern China

  • Qingmuchuan Ancient Town
  • Old Town of Kashgar

South Central China

thumb|Fenghuang Ancient Town

  • Old Town of Dengfeng
  • Yangmei Ancient Town
  • Huangyao Ancient Town
  • Fenghuang Ancient Town
  • Ancient Town of Liye
  • Ancient Town of Furong
  • Ancient Town of Luoyang
  • Ancient Town of Xijiang

Northeast China

  • Old Town of Harbin

Fiji

  • Levuka

India

thumb|Streets of Jodhpur, India

thumb|The Stadhuis is an old building in Jakarta Old Town

thumb|Keraton Kanoman is one of the oldest buildings in the historic town of Cirebon

Indonesia

Japan

thumb|Old Kyoto

UNESCO World Heritage Sites

  • Historic center of Kyoto (Gion and Higashiyama districts)
  • Historic centers of Shirakawa-gō and Gokayama

Chūbu

  • Samurai district of Kanazawa (Nagamachi)
  • Geisha district of Kanazawa (Higashi Chaya)
  • Magome Post Town
  • Matsumoto Nakamachi Merchant District
  • Narai Post Town
  • Tsumago Post Town
  • Takayama Merchant District

Chūgoku

  • Hagi Former Castle Town
  • Mitarai Historic Townscape
  • Kurashiki Bikan Historical Quarter
  • Tomonoura Port Town
  • Fukiya Merchant District
  • Matsue Samurai District
  • Yunotsu Onsen Port Town

Kansai

thumb|Post town of Narai

  • Imaicho Merchant Town
  • Naramachi Merchant District
  • Miyama Farming Town
  • Ine Port Town
  • Omihachiman
  • Oharaimachi

Kantō

  • Sawara Merchant District
  • Kawagoe Warehouse District

Kyushu

  • Kitsuki Samurai District
  • Usuki Samurai District
  • Taketomi Island
  • Misumi West Port Town

Shikoku

thumb|View on Ouchijuku from above

  • Yokaichi Merchant District
  • Kasashima Port Town

Tōhoku

  • Ouchijuku Post Town
  • Kakunodate Samurai District

Malaysia

thumb|Old Town of Ipoh

  • Historic center of George Town, UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Historic center of Malacca, UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Old Town of Kuala Lumpur
  • Old Town of Alor Setar
  • Old Town of Ipoh
  • Old Town of Petaling Jaya
  • Old Town of Miri
  • Old Town of Taiping
  • Old Town of Kuala Kangsar
  • Old Town of Bentong
  • Old Town of Gopeng
  • Old Town of Kuala Terengganu
  • Old Town of Muar
  • Old Town of Batu Pahat
  • Old Town of Kuala Kubu Bharu
  • Old Town of Kuala Selangor
  • Old Town of Lumut
  • Chinatown of Kuching

Myanmar

  • Historic center of Yangon
  • Old Bagan

Nepal

  • Old Town and Durbar Square of Kathmandu
  • Old Town and Durbar Square of Bhaktapur
  • Old Town and Durbar Square of Lalitpur
  • Kirtipur

New Zealand

thumb|Oamaru historic district

  • Old Town of Napier
  • Historic center of Wellington
  • Historic town of Feilding
  • Historic town of Russell
  • Historic town of Arrowtown
  • Old Oamaru

Pakistan

  • Walled City of Lahore, Punjab
  • Sethi Mohallah of Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Old City of Multan, Punjab

Philippines

Philippines as the former colony of Spain has numerous heritage structures, most notably in:

  • Old Town remnants of Intramuros in Manila
  • Old Town of Vigan
  • Old Town of Malolos
  • Old Town of San Fernando
  • Old Town of Pila
  • Old Town of Taal
  • Old Town of Balayan
  • Old Town of Iloilo
  • Old Town of Laoag
  • Old Town of Loboc
  • Old Town of Carcar
  • Old Town of Silay
  • Old Town of Baclayon
  • Old Town of Dapitan

Singapore

  • Chinatown, Singapore
  • Little India, Singapore

South Korea

thumb|Old town ([[Bukchon Hanok Village) in Seoul]]

  • Hahoe Folk Village (Andong), UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Yangdong Folk Village (Gyeongju), UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Bukchon Hanok Village (Seoul)
  • Oeam Folk Village (Asan)
  • Jeonju Hanok Village (Jeonju)
  • Nagan Eupseong Folk Village (Nagan)

Taiwan

  • (Historic center of Tainan)
  • Hengchun Prefecture City (Historic center of Hengchun)
  • Taipeh Prefecture City (Taipei City Walls)
  • Twatutia
  • Monka
  • Historic center of Tamsui
  • Lukang
  • Jioufen
  • Shifen Old Street
  • Sisinan Village, Taipei
  • , Matsu Islands

Thailand

thumb|Rank of [[Sino-Portuguese architecture|Sino-Portuguese shophouses on both sides of the road in Phraeng Phuthon of Sam Phraeng within Rattanakosin Island]]

  • Rattanakosin Island of Bangkok
  • Talat Noi and Song Wat Road of Bangkok
  • Kudi Chin of Bangkok
  • Ban Sing Tha of Yasothon
  • Old Phuket Town of Phuket
  • Chak Ngaeo of Chonburi
  • Chanthaboon Riverside Community of Chanthaburi
  • Chiang Khan of Loei
  • Chum Saeng of Nakhon Sawan
  • Tha Chalom of Samut Sakhon

Uzbekistan

  • Old Tashkent
  • Old Samarkand
  • Old Bukhara
  • Old Khiva

Vietnam

  • Old Quarter, Hanoi
  • Hiến Town of Hưng Yên
  • Thành Nam Old Town of Nam Định
  • Thanh Hà – Bao Vinh Old Twin Cities of Huế
  • Hội An Old Town
  • Bến Nghé of Ho Chi Minh City
  • Chợ Lớn of Ho Chi Minh City

Europe

Austria

thumb|Old Town Salzburg across the Salzach river

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;UNESCO World Heritage old towns in Austria

  • Graz (Styria)
  • Krems an der Donau (Lower Austria)
  • Salzburg (Salzburg), Altstadt Salzburg
  • Innere Stadt (Vienna)

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;Other notable/famous old towns include:

  • Hall in Tirol (Tyrol)
  • Innsbruck (Tyrol)
  • Linz (Upper Austria)
  • Wels (Upper Austria)
  • Steyr (Upper Austria)
  • Klagenfurt am Wörthersee (Carinthia)

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Armenia

thumb|Abovyan street in the Old Town of Gyumri

  • Historical Center in Vagharshapat, UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Old Town of Goris (Syunik)
  • Old Khndzoresk (Syunik)
  • Poqr Tagh and Mets Tagh in Meghri (Syunik)
  • Old Town of Dilijan (Tavush)
  • Old Town of Ashtarak (Aragatsotn)
  • Kumayri in Gyumri (Shirak)
  • Old Town of Tashir (Lori)
  • Old Town of Tegh (Syunik)
  • Kond, Old Nork and Erebuni Fortress in Yerevan

Albania

thumb|A view of Gjirokaster

  • Historical Center of Berat, UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Historical Center of Gjirokaster, UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Old Town of Vlorë
  • Old Town of Durrës
  • Old Town of Lezhë
  • Old Town of Shkodër
  • Old Town of Korçë
  • Old Town of Krujë
  • Old Town of Dhërmi
  • Castle of Elbasan

Azerbaijan

thumb|Old houses in the Inner city of Baku

  • Walled City of Baku in Baku, UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Historic Center of Shaki, UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Old Town of Ordubad
  • Old Town of Ganja

Belgium

  • Antwerp
  • Arlon
  • Binche
  • Bruges
  • Brussels
  • Dendermonde
  • Dinant
  • Durbuy
  • Ghent
  • Leuven
  • Liège
  • Lier
  • Mechelen
  • Mons
  • Namur
  • Thuin
  • Tournai
  • Ypres

Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • Historic Center of Sarajevo
  • Stari Most (Old City of Mostar)
  • City of Višegrad
  • Jajce
  • Vratnik
  • Old Tuzla

Bulgaria

  • Old Town in Plovdiv
  • Old Town in Lovech
  • Old Town in Nessebur
  • Old Town in Sofia
  • Old Town in Veliko Tarnovo

Croatia

  • Old Town of Dubrovnik, UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Old Town of Split with Diocletian's Palace, UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Old Town of Trogir, UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Old Town of Varaždin
  • Old Town of Rovinj
  • Old Zadar
  • Gradec and Kaptol, twin old towns of Zagreb
  • Old Rijeka
  • Old Osijek

Czech Republic

  • Staré Město in Prague, UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Vnitřní město in Český Krumlov, UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Vnitřní město in Kutná Hora, UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Vnitřní město in Telč, UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Vnitřní město in Karlovy Vary
  • Vnitřní město in Brno
  • Vnitřní město in Plzeň
  • Vnitřní město in Liberec

Cyprus

  • Walled city of Nicosia
  • Walled city of Famagusta
  • Old town of Limassol
  • Old town of Paphos also traditionally known as Ktima. Not to be confused with Nea Paphos a World Heritage Site
  • Old town of Larnaca

Denmark

  • Den Gamle By in Aarhus
  • Nyhavn in Copenhagen
  • Old Odense
  • Old Aalborg
  • Old Haderslev
  • Old Rønne

Estonia

thumb|Town Hall square in the Old Town of Tallinn

  • Old Town (Vanalinn) of Narva
  • Old Town (Vanalinn) of Tallinn, UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Old Town (Vanalinn) of Tartu
  • Old Town (Vanalinn) of Pärnu

Finland

  • Old Town (Vanhakaupunki) of Porvoo
  • Vanhakaupunki in Turku
  • Vanhakaupunki in Helsinki
  • Old Rauma

France

thumb|The Old Town of [[Albi, a UNESCO World Heritage site]]

thumb|The old city of [[Besançon and the meander of the Doubs River]]

The equivalent of "Old Town" in French is vieille ville, although the more formal centre historique ("historical center") is usually written on road signs.

;UNESCO World Heritage old towns

  • Albi (Tarn)
  • Avignon (Vaucluse)
  • Bordeaux (Gironde)
  • Carcassonne (Aude)
  • Lyon (Rhône)
  • Provins (Seine-et-Marne)
  • Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin)
  • Vichy (Allier)

;Other notable French old towns include:

Georgia

  • Old Tbilisi (Dzveli Tbilisi) in Tbilisi
  • Historical Center in Mtskheta, UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Old Town in Kutaisi (Imereti)
  • Old Town in Batumi (Adjara)
  • Old Town in Sighnaghi (Kakheti)
  • Old Town in Telavi (Kakheti)
  • Old Town in Gori (Shida Kartli)

Germany

thumb|Old town ([[Altstadt) of Regensburg in Bavaria, a World Heritage site]]

thumb|Hanseatic old town of [[Lübeck, aerial view]]

thumb|Old town of [[Quedlinburg]]

thumb|[[Wittenberg during Luthers Hochzeit festival]]

thumb|Old town of [[Würzburg]]

  • UNESCO World Heritage old towns in Germany:
  • Bamberg (Franconia)
  • Goslar (Lower Saxony)
  • Lübeck (Schleswig-Holstein)
  • Quedlinburg (Saxony-Anhalt)
  • Regensburg (Bavaria)
  • Stralsund (Western Pomerania)
  • Wismar (Mecklenburg)

Other notable/famous old towns include:

  • Northern Germany:
  • Bad Doberan (Mecklenburg)
  • Binz (Western Pomerania)
  • Celle (Lower Saxony)
  • Eckernförde (Schleswig)
  • Flensburg (Schleswig)
  • Friedrichstadt (Schleswig)
  • Güstrow (Mecklenburg)
  • Hamelin (Lower Saxony)
  • Hann. Münden (Lower Saxony)
  • Heringsdorf (Western Pomerania)
  • Lüneburg (Lower Saxony)
  • Neustrelitz (Mecklenburg)
  • Putbus (Western Pomerania)
  • Ratzeburg (Holstein)
  • Schwerin (Mecklenburg)
  • Stade (Lower Saxony)
  • Waren (Mecklenburg)
  • Wolfenbüttel (Lower Saxony)
  • Eastern Germany:
  • Bautzen (Lusatia)
  • Erfurt (Thuringia)
  • Görlitz (Silesia)
  • Meissen (Saxony)
  • Pirna (Saxony)
  • Stolberg (Saxony-Anhalt)
  • Weimar (Thuringia)
  • Wernigerode (Saxony-Anhalt)
  • Southern Germany:
  • Baden-Baden (Baden)
  • Dinkelsbühl (Bavaria)
  • Freiburg (Baden)
  • Füssen (Bavaria)
  • Heidelberg (Baden)
  • Konstanz (Swabia)
  • Landshut (Bavaria)
  • Lindau (Bavaria)
  • Nuremberg (Franconia)
  • Ravensburg (Swabia)
  • Rothenburg (Bavaria)
  • Schwäbisch Hall (Swabia)
  • Tübingen (Swabia)
  • Würzburg (Franconia)
  • Western Germany:
  • Bacharach (Rhineland-Palatinate)
  • Beilstein (Rhineland)
  • Bernkastel-Kues (Rhineland)
  • Cochem (Rhineland-Palatinate)
  • Hattingen (North Rhine-Westphalia)
  • Landau (Palatinate)
  • Lemgo (Westphalia)
  • Limburg (Hesse)
  • Linz am Rhein (Rheinland)
  • Marburg (Hesse)
  • Monschau (Rhineland)
  • Montabaur (Rhineland-Palatinate)
  • Rüdesheim (Hesse)
  • Soest (North Rhine-Westphalia)
  • Trier (Rhineland-Palatinate)
  • Wetzlar(Hesse)
  • Xanten (Rhineland)

Greece

thumb|A street in the Old Town of Corfu

  • Medieval City of Rhodes, UNESCO World Heritage Site, South Aegean
  • Historical center of Corfu (city), UNESCO World Heritage Site, Ionian Islands
  • Historical center of Chora, UNESCO World Heritage Site, South Aegean
  • Kastellorizo, South Aegean
  • Plaka, Athens

Crete

  • Old Town of Chania
  • Old Town of Heraklion
  • Old Town of Agios Nikolaos
  • Old Town of Rethymno

Attica

  • Plaka, Athens

Macedonia

  • Ano Poli and Ladadika, Thessaloniki
  • Old Town of Drama
  • Old Town of Kavala
  • Old Town of Florina
  • Old Town of Nymfaio

Thessaly

thumb|A street in Plaka, Athens

  • Varousi, Trikala
  • Old Town of Volos

Thrace

  • Old Town of Xanthi
  • Old Town of Komotini

Epirus

  • Old Town of Parga
  • Old Town of Metsovo
  • Ioannina Castle, Ioannina
  • Old Town of Preveza
  • Old Town of Konitsa

Peloponnese

thumb|A view of Monemvasia from above

  • Old Town of Koroni
  • Old Town of Dimitsana
  • Old Town of Kalavryta
  • Old Stemnitsa
  • Old Town of Areopoli
  • Old Town of Patras
  • Old Town of Leonidio
  • Old Town of Kalamata
  • Monemvasia
  • Old Town of Nafplio

Ionian Islands

  • Old Town of Fiskardo

Aegan Islands

thumb|Street in Mykonos

  • Old Town of Mithymna
  • Old Town of Symi
  • Old Town of Andros
  • Old Town of Mykonos
  • Old Town of Ermoupoli

Central Greece

  • Old Town of Galaxidi, Central Greece
  • Old Arachova
  • Old Town of Nafpaktos
  • Old Town of Livadeia

Italy

thumb|Old town of [[Siena]]

thumb|Historic Centre of [[Rome]]

thumb|[[Venice as seen from the air]]

thumb|Old town of [[Urbino]]

thumb|[[Genoa]]

thumb|Vernazza, one of the towns of [[Cinque Terre in Liguria, Italy]]

thumb|Skyline of [[Assisi]]

  • UNESCO World Heritage old towns in Italy:
  • Assisi (Umbria)
  • Ferrara (Emilia-Romagna)
  • Florence (Tuscany)
  • Genoa (Liguria)
  • Mantua (Lombardy)
  • Modena (Emilia-Romagna)
  • Naples (Campania)
  • Padua (Veneto)
  • Pienza (Tuscany)
  • Pisa (Tuscany)
  • Ravenna (Emilia-Romagna)
  • Rome (Lazio)
  • San Gimignano (Tuscany)
  • Siena (Tuscany)
  • Siracusa (Sicily)
  • Urbino (Marche)
  • Venice (Veneto)
  • Verona (Veneto)
  • Vicenza (Veneto)

I Borghi più belli d'Italia is an association of small Italian towns of historical interest.

Other notable old towns include:

  • Northern Italy
  • Bassano del Grappa (Veneto)
  • Bergamo (Lombardy)
  • Bologna (Emilia-Romagna)
  • Bolzano (Trentino-Alto Adige)
  • Castelfranco Veneto (Veneto)
  • Chioggia (Veneto)
  • Cittadella (Veneto)
  • Milan (Lombardy)
  • Palmanova (Friuli-Venezia Giulia)
  • Parma (Emilia-Romagna)
  • Pavia (Lombardy)
  • Polcenigo (Friuli-Venezia Giulia)
  • Sacile (Friuli-Venezia Giulia)
  • Trento (Trentino-Alto Adige)
  • Treviso (Veneto)
  • Trieste (Friuli-Venezia Giulia)
  • Turin (Piedmont)
  • Udine (Friuli-Venezia Giulia)
  • Vittorio Veneto (Veneto)
  • Central Italy
  • Ancona (Marche)
  • Arezzo (Tuscany)
  • Camerino (Marche)
  • Colle di Val d'Elsa (Tuscany)
  • Gubbio (Umbria)
  • Loreto (Marche)
  • Lucca (Tuscany)
  • Massa Marittima (Tuscany)
  • Montalcino (Tuscany)
  • Montefiascone (Lazio)
  • Monteleone di Spoleto (Umbria)
  • Montepulciano (Tuscany)
  • Orvieto (Umbria)
  • Perugia (Umbria)
  • Tivoli (Lazio)
  • Viterbo (Lazio)
  • Volterra (Tuscany)
  • Southern Italy
  • Bari (Apulia)
  • Catania (Sicily)
  • Ostuni (Apulia)
  • Trani (Apulia)
  • Martina Franca (Apulia)
  • Monopoli (Apulia)
  • Lecce (Apulia)
  • Palermo (Sicily)
  • Cefalù (Sicily)
  • Salerno (Campania)
  • Maratea (Basilicata)
  • Tropea (Calabria)
  • Benevento (Campania)
  • Gallipoli (Apulia)
  • Erice (Sicily)

Latvia

thumb|Vecrīga

  • Vecrīga in Riga, UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Old Town of Liepāja
  • Old Daugavpils
  • Old Kuldīga
  • Old Town of Cēsis
  • Old Ventspils

Lithuania

  • Senamiestis in Vilnius (a part of UNESCO)
  • Senamiestis in Kaunas
  • Senamiestis in Klaipėda
  • Senamiestis in Trakai
  • Senamiestis in Kėdainiai
  • Senamiestis in Ukmergė

Luxembourg

  • Old Town of Luxembourg City

Montenegro

  • Old Town of Kotor, a World Heritage Site
  • Old Town of Budva
  • Old Town of Herceg Novi
  • Old Town of Perast
  • Old Town of Ulcinj
  • Historical core of Cetinje
  • Stara Varoš (Podgorica)
  • Stari Bar

Moldova

  • Old Town of Chișinău

Netherlands

thumb|Canal houses in Amsterdam

The standard term for 'Old Town' in the Netherlands is "binnenstad", which translates as "innercity", i.e. in city on the inside of the city walls.

  • Oude Stad in Nijmegen
  • Oude Stad (Tilburg)
  • Oude Stad in Amsterdam
  • Oude Stad in Dordrecht
  • Oude Stad in Utrecht
  • Oude Stad in Groningen
  • Oude Stad in Alkmaar
  • Oude Stad in Gouda
  • Oude Stad in Breda
  • Oude Stad in Delft
  • Oude Stad in Leeuwarden
  • Oude Stad in Arnhem

North Macedonia

  • Historical Center of Ohrid, UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Old Town of Bitola
  • Old Bazaar of Skopje
  • Old Town of Kruševo

Norway

  • Old Town, Oslo
  • Old Town, Ålesund
  • Old Town, Bergen
  • Old Town, Grimstad

Poland

thumb|[[Wawel Royal Castle in Kraków]]

thumb|Old town in [[Toruń]]

thumb|[[Warsaw Old Town|Warsaw's Old Town Market Place]]

thumb|Market Square in [[Zamość]]

thumb|[[Gdańsk]]

thumb|[[Wrocław Old Town]]

UNESCO World Heritage old towns in Poland:

  • Old town of Kraków
  • Old Town of Toruń
  • Old town of Warsaw
  • Old town of Zamość

Other notable old towns include:

Portugal

  • Old town in Póvoa de Varzim, named "old town" (Vila Velha) since 1343.
  • Old town in Porto
  • Old town in Guimarães
  • Óbidos, Portugal walled city
  • Old town in Évora
  • Old town in Lisbon

Romania

  • Old town of Sighișoara, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Old town of Arad
  • Old town of Alba Iulia
  • Old town of Botoșani
  • Old town of Brașov
  • Old town of Brăila
  • Old town of Bucharest
  • Old town of Cluj Napoca
  • Old town of Constanța
  • Old town of Craiova
  • Old town of Iași
  • Old town of Oradea
  • Old town of Sibiu
  • Old town of Timișoara

Russia

thumb|The embankment along the Moyka river, St. Petersburg

UNESCO World Heritage Sites

  • Old town of St. Petersburg, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Old town of Veliky Novgorod
  • Old town of Derbent
  • Historic center of Yaroslavl
Central Federal District

thumb|Overview of the Old Town of Rostov

‡ indicates historic settlements of federal importance.

Volga Federal District

thumb|Street in the Old Town of Kazan

  • Historic center of Kazan and the Kazan Kremlin
  • Historic center of Nizhny Novgorod and the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin
  • Historic center of Saratov
  • Historic center of Orenburg
  • Historic center of Samara
  • Historic center of Kirov
  • Old Town of Volsk, historic settlement of federal importance
  • Old Town of Arzamas, historic settlement of federal importance
  • Old Town of Yelabuga, historic settlement of federal importance
  • Old Town of Chistopol, historic settlement of federal importance
  • Old Town of Bolgar
  • Old Town of Gorodets
  • Old Town of Sarov
Northwestern Federal District

thumb|Ensemble of Pskov Kremlin

  • Historic center of Pskov and Pskov Kremlin
  • Historic center of Vyborg
  • Historic center of Vologda
  • Historic center of Arkhangelsk
  • Old Town of Kargopol, historic settlement of federal importance
  • Old Town of Staraya Russa, historic settlement of federal importance
  • Old Town of Belozersk, historic settlement of federal importance
  • Old Town of Veliky Ustyug, historic settlement of federal importance
  • Old Town of Totma, historic settlement of federal importance
  • Old Town of Solvychegodsk, historic settlement of federal importance
  • Old Town of Petrozavodsk
  • Old Town of Gatchina
  • Old Town of Syktyvkar
  • Russian East Prussia (Kaliningrad Oblast)
  • Old Königsberg or Kaliningrad (Amalienau district)
  • Old Tilsit (Sovyetsk)
  • Old Insterburg (Chernyakhovsk)
  • Old Rauschen (Svetlogorsk)
  • Old Kranz (Zelenogradsk)
  • Old Gumbinnen (Gusev)
  • Old Tapiau (Gvardeysk)
Southern Federal District

thumb|Astrakhan Kremlin

  • Historic center of Rostov-on-Don
  • Historic center of Krasnodar
  • Historic center of Volgograd
  • Historic center of Astrakhan and Astrakhan kremlin
  • Old Town of Azov, historic settlement of federal importance
  • Old Town of Taganrog, historic settlement of federal importance
  • Old Town of Yeysk
  • Old Town of Maykop
  • Old Town of Uryupinsk
  • Old Town of Armavir
North Caucasian Federal District

thumb|Street in Vladikavkaz

  • Historic center of Vladikavkaz
  • Historic center of Pyatigorsk
  • Historic center of Stavropol
  • Old Town of Kislovodsk
  • Old Town of Georgievsk
Ural Federal District

thumb|Tobolsk Kremlin

  • Historic center of Yekaterinburg
  • Historic center of Tyumen
  • Old Town of Verkhoturye, historic settlement of federal importance
  • Old Town of Tobolsk and Tobolsk Kremlin
Siberian Federal District

thumb|Historical center of Tomsk

  • Historic center of Tomsk, historic settlement of federal importance
  • Historic center of Irkutsk, historic settlement of federal importance
  • Historic center of Krasnoyarsk
  • Historic center of Omsk
  • Old Town of Yeniseysk, historic settlement of federal importance
Far Eastern Federal District

thumb|A street in Old Vladivostok

  • Historic center of Vladivostok
  • Historic center of Blagoveshchensk
  • Historic center of Khabarovsk
  • Old Town of Kyakhta, historic settlement of federal importance
  • Old Town of Nerchinsk
  • Old Town of Chita
  • Old Town of Komsomolsk-on-Amur

Serbia

  • Stari Grad, a neighborhood in Novi Sad
  • Petrovaradin suburb
  • Stari Grad, Sremski Karlovci - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance
  • Stari Grad, Kikinda - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance
  • Stari Grad, Zrenjanin - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance
  • Stari Grad, Bečej - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance
  • Stari Grad, Sombor - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance
  • Stari Grad, Pančevo - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance
  • Stari Grad, Subotica - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance
  • Stari Grad, Sremska Mitrovica - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance
  • Stari Grad, Zemun - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance
  • Stari Grad, a municipality in Belgrade
  • Stara čaršija, Grocka, Belgrade - Two quarters of Old City are a Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance
  • Tešnjar, Valjevo - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance
  • Stara čaršija, Novi Pazar - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance
  • Stari Grad, a municipality in Kragujevac
  • Stari Grad, the remains of a fort in Užice
  • Stari Grad, Ivanjica - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance
  • Stari Grad, Negotin - Cultural Heritage of Extraordinary importance
  • Old Town of Prizren
  • Old Bazaar of Đakovica

Slovakia

  • Staré Mesto in Bratislava
  • Staré Mesto in Košice
  • Staré Mesto in Nitra

Spain

;UNESCO World Heritage old towns in Spain

Other notable/famous old towns include:

Sweden

  • Gamla staden, Malmö
  • Gamla stan, Stockholm
  • Gamlestaden, Gothenburg
  • Gammelstaden, Luleå Municipality
  • Visby, Region Gotland, UNESCO

Switzerland

  • Bern, UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Zürich, District 1
  • Old Town of Geneva
  • Old Town of Solothurn
  • Old Town of Basel
  • Old Town of Lucerne
  • Old Town of Lausanne
  • Old Town of St.Gallen
  • Old Town of Fribourg
  • Old Town of Aarau
  • Old Town of Thun
  • Old Town of Neuchâtel
  • Old Town of Lugano
  • Old Town of Vevey
  • Old Town of Gruyères
  • Old town of Biel
  • Old town of Sion
  • Old town of Zug

Turkey

thumb|254x254px|Old Town of Safranbolu, UNESCO World Heritage site

UNESCO

  • Istanbul, Historic Peninsula (Fatih district), UNESCO World Heritage site
  • Bursa, Historic city center, UNESCO World Heritage site
  • Cumalıkızık, UNESCO World Heritage site
  • Safranbolu, UNESCO World Heritage site

Aegan region

  • Old Town of Foça
  • Old Town of Alaçatı
  • Old Town of Çeşme
  • Old Town of Sığacık
  • Şirince
  • Old Town of Doğanbey
  • Birgi
  • Old Town of Bodrum
  • Old Town of Marmaris
  • Old Town of Yeşilüzümlü
  • Old Town of Buldan
  • Old Town of Babadağ
  • Old Town of Kula
  • Old Town of Kütahya
  • Old Town of Afyonkarahisar

Black Sea Region

thumb|254x254px|Old Şirince

  • Old Town of Göynük
  • Mudurnu
  • Old Town of Akçakoca
  • Old Town of Kastamonu
  • Amasya, Historic city center
  • Old Town of Bartın
  • Old Town of Tokat

Central Anatolia Region

  • Ankara, Historic city center (Altındağ district)
  • Eskişehir, Historic city district (Odunpazarı district)
  • Konya, Historic city district
  • Kayseri, Historic city district
  • Old Town of Çankırı
  • Beypazarı
  • Old Town of Sivrihisar
  • Old Town of Güzelyurt
  • Old Town of Niğde
  • Cappadocia (UNESCO World Heritage site)
  • Old Avanos
  • Old Çavuşin
  • Old Uçhisar
  • Old Ürgüp
  • Old Mustafapaşa
  • Old Ortahisar

Eastern Anatolia Region

thumb|254x254px|Old Houses in Ankara

  • Malatya, Historic city district (Yeşilyurt district)
  • Old Kemaliye
  • Old Town of Bitlis
  • Old Malatya (Battalgazi)
  • Old Town of Çukurca
  • Old Town of Kars

Marmara Region

  • Old Town of Edirne
  • Old Town of Çanakkale
  • Old Town of Mudanya
  • Bozcaada
  • Old Town of Osmaneli
  • Old Taraklı
  • Old Town of İzmit

Mediterranean Region

thumb|254x254px|An overview of the Old Town of Mardin

  • Antalya, Historic city district (Kaleiçi)
  • Adana, Historic city district (Tepebağ)
  • Old City of Antakya
  • Old Town of Tarsus
  • Old Town of Alanya
  • Kaleköy
  • Ormana

Southeastern Anatolia Region

  • Gaziantep, Historic city district (Bey Mahallesi)
  • Old Urfa
  • Harran
  • Old Town of Uludere
  • Tur Abdin Region
  • Old Town of Mardin
  • Old Town of Midyat
  • Iwardo
  • Dayro da-Slibo
  • Anhel

Ukraine

  • Stare Misto in Lviv, UNESCO World Heritage site
  • Old Odesa, UNESCO World Heritage site
  • Old Kyiv
  • Old Kamianets-Podilskyi
  • Old Kharkiv
  • Old Chernivtsi
  • Old Uzhhorod
  • Old Chernihiv
  • Old Ternopil

United Kingdom

England

  • UNESCO World Heritage old towns in England:
  • City of Bath
  • Maritime Greenwich
  • Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City
  • Old Town, Barnsley
  • Old Town, Chard
  • Old Town, Croydon
  • Old Town, hamlet near Mansergh, Cumbria
  • Old Town, Eastbourne
  • Old Town, Hastings
  • Old Town, Isles of Scilly
  • Old Town, Kingston upon Hull
  • Old Town, hamlet near Otterburn, Northumberland
  • Old Town, Southampton, a district of the city of Southampton
  • Old Town, Swindon
  • Old Town, West Yorkshire

Scotland

  • Old Town, Edinburgh, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, along with the New Town, Edinburgh

Wales

  • Holyhead Old Town, a townscape heritage conservation area with the best surviving Roman Fort in Wales

Overseas territories

  • Historic Town of St George, Bermuda, a UNESCO World Heritage Site

Middle East

Israel and Palestine

thumb|[[Old City of Jerusalem|Old City of Jerusalem]]

  • Old City of Jerusalem
  • Old City of Acre
  • Old City of Beersheba
  • Old City of Haifa
  • Old Jaffa
  • Old City of Nazareth
  • Old City of Bethlehem
  • Old City of Ramle
  • Old City of Hebron
  • Old City of Nablus
  • Old City of Tiberias
  • Old City of Safed

Lebanon

  • Old Byblos
  • Old Sidon
  • Old Tripoli
  • Old Tyre
  • Beirut Central District
  • Old Batroun
  • Deir el Qamar
  • Rachaya

Saudi Arabia

thumb|Historic houses of Jeddah

  • Diriyah in Riyadh
  • Old Jeddah

Syria

  • Ancient City of Aleppo, in Syria
  • Ancient City of Bosra, in Syria
  • Ancient City of Damascus in Syria
  • Old Tartus

Yemen

thumb|Old Town of Sana'a

  • Old City of Sana'a in Yemen
  • Old Walled City of Shibam in Yemen
  • Zabīd in Yemen

Iran

thumb|Overview of Masuleh

  • Historical Center in Yazd, UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Historical Center in Isfahan, UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Historical City of Masuleh
  • Historical City of Meybod
  • Old Abyaneh

Iraq

  • Erbil citadel
  • Old Mosul
  • Old Baghdad
  • Old Basra

North America

Canada

Quebec

  • Historic District of Old Quebec, Quebec, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Old Montreal, Quebec

Other

  • Old Town Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Old Town, Toronto, Ontario
  • Old Town Victoria

Cuba

  • Old Havana, a UNESCO World heritage Site

Dominican Republic

  • Ciudad Colonial in Santo Domingo, oldest European city in America, UNESCO World Heritage Site

Mexico

  • Historic center of Mexico City, Mexico City, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Guanajuato City, Guanajuato, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Morelia, Michoacán, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Oaxaca City, Oaxaca, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Zacatecas City, Zacatecas, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Queretaro City, Querétaro
  • Campeche City, Campeche, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Tlacotalpan, Veracruz, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, a UNESCO World Heritage Site

Panama

  • Panamá Viejo, a UNESCO World Heritage Site

Puerto Rico

  • Old San Juan, UNESCO World Heritage Site, U.S. National Register of Historic Places

United States

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California

thumb|[[Painted ladies|Painted Ladies in San Francisco]]

  • Pueblo de Los Ángeles
  • Old Town Eureka
  • Historic Center of San Francisco
  • Old Town Oakland
  • Old Town Nevada City
  • Old Solvang
  • Old Ferndale
  • Old Julian
  • Old Town Pasadena
  • Old Sacramento
  • Old Town, San Diego and Old Town San Diego State Historic Park

Florida

  • Old St. Augustine
  • Old Town Fernandina
  • Old Town, Key West

Maryland

  • Historic center of Baltimore (Old West Baltimore, North Central Historic District), Maryland
  • Old Annapolis, Maryland
  • Olde Towne Gaithersburg, Maryland

New Mexico

  • Old Town Albuquerque
  • Old Town Taos
  • Historic Center of Santa Fe
  • Old Silver City

New York

  • Historic center of New York, New York
  • Old Town, Staten Island, New York

Northeastern United States

  • Historic center of Boston (North End, Back Bay and Beacon Hill), Massachusetts
  • Historic center of Philadelphia (Chestnut Hill, Old City), Pennsylvania
  • Old Portsmouth, New Hampshire
  • Old Burlington, Vermont
  • Old New Haven, Connecticut
  • Old Portland, Maine
  • Old Town Jersey City, New Jersey
  • Old Town Salem, Massachusetts
  • New Castle, Delaware

North Carolina

  • Old Town Beaufort
  • Old Town Blowing Rock
  • Old Town Asheville

Tennessee

  • Old Town (Franklin, Tennessee) a location along the Natchez Trace named for the Mississippian mound complex there
  • Old Town (Mississippian culture mound complex), Franklin, Tennessee
  • Thomas Brown House (Franklin, Tennessee), also known as Old Town, NRHP-listed

Virginia

  • Historic center of Richmond
  • Old Town Fairfax
  • Old Town Alexandria
  • Old Town Manassas
  • Portsmouth Olde Towne Historic District

Other US states

  • Old Town Scottsdale, Arizona
  • Old Town Fort Collins, Colorado
  • Old Town, Augusta, Georgia
  • Old Town, Chicago, Illinois
  • Old Town, Indiana
  • Old Town, Wichita, Kansas
  • Old Town Lansing, Michigan
  • Old Town Chinatown, Portland, Oregon
  • Fairhaven, the oldest part of Bellingham, Washington

South America

Argentina

  • San Telmo and La Boca in Buenos Aires
  • Old Salta
  • Old Ushuaia

Brazil

Northeast

thumb|Historic center of Salvador

  • Historic Center of Olinda
  • Historic Center of Salvador, also known as Pelourinho
  • Historic Center of São Luis

Center-West

  • Historic Center of Goiás, Goiás

Southeast

thumb|[[Pátio do Colégio (left) and surrounding historic buildings in São Paulo]]

  • Historic Center of Diamantina, Minas Gerais
  • Centro, in Rio de Janeiro
  • Sé, in the Central Zone of São Paulo

South

  • Centro Histórico, in Porto Alegre

Colombia

  • La Candelaria, a historic neighborhood in downtown Bogotá
  • Old Cartagena

Ecuador

  • Quito's Historic Center

Uruguay

  • Ciudad Vieja in Montevideo, "Old City" is the name of the oldest part of the city

Other uses

  • The Girls of Old Town, a group of prostitutes in the comic series Sin City
  • Old Town (song), a song by Phil Lynott, later covered by the Corrs

See also

  • Altstadt
  • Eskişehir, "Old City" in Turkish
  • Old City (disambiguation)
  • Oldtown (disambiguation)
  • Stare Miasto (disambiguation), "Old Town" in Polish
  • Stari Grad (disambiguation), means "Old Town"

References

Further reading