Old towns Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
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About Old towns
The tour guide:–This is a 15th century building.An American visitor:–Wow...A Chinese visitor:–Is that BC or AD? An old town is inhabited, in contrast toarchaeological sites,ghost townsandliving history museums. The old towns that exist today are not necessarily the first settlements built at the location. Many of them have been destroyed by fire, war or disasters, and rebuilt several times. Some old towns, such asDüsseldorf, have been restored to their former appearance in recent times. There is no universal definition for how old an old town has to be. In many cases it is implied that the settlement has been there at least since the mid-19th century, beforesteam powerbrought railroads and large-scale urban planning. This varies between parts of the world, for instance a late 19th-century
Old towns Travel Guide Sections
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