• Welcome to the FREE TUGBBS forums! The absolute best place for owners to get help and advice about their timeshares for more than 32 years!

    Join Tens of Thousands of other owners just like you here to get any and all Timeshare questions answered 24 hours a day!
  • TUG started 32 years ago in October 1993 as a group of regular Timeshare owners just like you!

    Read about our 32nd anniversary: Happy 32nd Birthday TUG!
  • TUG has a YouTube Channel to produce weekly short informative videos on popular Timeshare topics!

    All subscribers auto-entered to win all free TUG membership giveaways!

    Visit TUG on Youtube!
  • TUG has now saved timeshare owners more than $24,000,000 dollars just by finding us in time to rescind a new Timeshare purchase! A truly incredible milestone!

    Read more here: TUG saves owners more than $24 Million dollars
  • Wish you could meet up with other TUG members? Well look no further as this annual event has been going on for years in Orlando! How to Attend the TUG January Get-Together!
  • Now through the end of the year you can join or renew your TUG membership at the lowest price ever offered! Learn More!
  • Sign up to get the TUG Newsletter for free!

    Tens of thousands of subscribing owners! A weekly recap of the best Timeshare resort reviews and the most popular topics discussed by owners!
  • Our official "end my sales presentation early" T-shirts are available again! Also come with the option for a free membership extension with purchase to offset the cost!

    All T-shirt options here!
  • A few of the most common links here on the forums for newbies and guests!

How many walled cities have you visited?

C

Carolinian

Guest
Joined
Jun 6, 2005
Messages
11,854
Reaction score
1,328
Location
eastern Europe
How many walled cities, with the walls at least reasonably intact, have you visited.

My list would be:

York, England
Quebec, Canada
Talinn, Estonia
Valetta, Malta
Famagusta, Cyprus
Nicosia, Cyprus
Siegeshora, Romania
Brasov, Romania
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Split, Croatia
Rhodes, Greece
Arges Mortes, France
Carcasone, France
 
Nice list, Carolinian...I've been to a few, Quebec included (many times), and somewhere in Germany and Wales, but I can't remember names...
Connie
 
I'm not sure how many total nor which qualify as intact, but what I recall:

Best walls so far:
Carcassonne, France
Avila, Spain

Others:

France:
Sarlat
Avignon
Domme
Montpazier

Italy:
Volterra
San Gimignano
Arezzo
Lucca
Assisi
Orvieto
Civita de Bagnoregio
Pisa



Wales:
Tenby

Switzerland:
Gruyere

Croatia:
Dubrovnik
I'm sure I visited Split, Korcula and some other places tho it was too long ago and I have no memory of what was where!

Mallorca:
Alcudia
 
Last edited:
Do Mont St. Michel, Eze, and St. Paul-de-Vence in France count?
 
Maybe the thread should be "walled and previously/partially walled" cities. Most aren't completely walled today are they?

I loved Rothenburg ob der Tauber in Germany. Seemed to still be completely walled.

Phil
 
Rothenburg is great. So is Carcassone, but in a different way. Ribeauville and Riquewihr are small and quaint. The walls are nice, the Cremant wonderful. :)
 
Carolinian said:
How many walled cities, with the walls at least reasonably intact, have you visited.

My list would be:

York, England
Quebec, Canada
Talinn, Estonia
Valetta, Malta
Famagusta, Cyprus
Nicosia, Cyprus
Siegeshora, Romania
Brasov, Romania
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Split, Croatia
Rhodes, Greece
Arges Mortes, France
Carcasone, France
Click to expand...

Looking at your list I am not sure how one would define a walled city. I have been to some cities on your list like York, Quebec, Dubrovnik, etc. and to a number of others. Now I wonder: would cities like Regensburg, Germany; Avignon, France; Krakow, Poland; Kyiv and Kamianez Podolski in Ukraine qualify ? or for that matter the remains of ancient Greek colonies in the Crimea ?, OK, why not Kremlin in Moscow ? Or how about the Great Wall of China ? Its not exactly a city as such but certainly an outstanding example of ancient fortifications. Don't forget about several medieval Japanese cities with very well preserved fortifications ! The list could go on and on if you include other countries in Asia that boast whatever remains of their ancient fortresses. Before adding new names IMO what we really need is some agreed definition of what qualifies and what not.

Kola
 
Last edited:
walled cities

I noticed Lucca, Italy is not on the list. This is an excellent example of a walled city. It is very wide and is now a jogging/bike path. I have also been to several others previously mentioned and most recently Brasov, Romania. I would have liked to have made it to Sigsahoara but time just did not permit.
 
Jimster said:
I noticed Lucca, Italy is not on the list. This is an excellent example of a walled city. It is very wide and is now a jogging/bike path.
Click to expand...
It's on my list, see above!

IMO this thread isn't just about one list or "the" list, it's for folks to think about and remember places we've been to.

Probably we shouldn't worry about whether places we've visited "count" or "qualify" ... otherwise we won't have too many participants here.
 
Last edited:
Wall Lake
Little Wall Lake
Wall Drug

:D
 
MILOIOWA said:
Oh yeah, and heaven forbid, WalMart.:D
Click to expand...

Sadly, this is a true statement. The super WalMarts are almost a walled city in and of themselves--and you have to pass the guard to get in and out (WalMart calls them "greeters"). You can get most anything there including eye exams and hearing exams. Some may even have medical clinics. And now they are talking about having their own bank. I haven't seen one that provided mortuary services yet--but then, those are usually outside the city walls. I guess WalMart has become the modern version of our fortified cities. :bawl:
 
Rose Pink said:
Sadly, this is a true statement......... And now they are talking about having their own bank. I haven't seen one that provided mortuary services yet--but then, those are usually outside the city walls. I guess WalMart has become the modern version of our fortified cities. :bawl:
Click to expand...

As a traveller I would be interested in discounted fares on WallAir, WallCruise, and a WallCarRental. When are these services coming ? :clap:

Kola
 
I was born in a formerly walled city...New York City. Wall Street has its name because in pre-revolutionary times, a barracade ran from the East to the Hudson River at Wall Street to prevent Indian attacks.

List of European walled cities to follow when I recover from this turkey overdose (the bird, not the country!)...
 
Since it sells 1% of the GDP of China (real stat), should WalMart legitimately count becuase of the Great Wall?
 
San Giarmani Italy
Quebec City, Canada
Old City Jerusalem, Israel:hi:
 
Haven't been to any of the cities mentioned above, but I just got back from Vienna, Austria and I believe my guide told me that part of the old town was walled at some point and some walls still remains...
 
Kola said:
Looking at your list I am not sure how one would define a walled city. I have been to some cities on your list like York, Quebec, Dubrovnik, etc. and to a number of others. Now I wonder: would cities like Regensburg, Germany; Avignon, France; Krakow, Poland; Kyiv and Kamianez Podolski in Ukraine qualify ? or for that matter the remains of ancient Greek colonies in the Crimea ?, OK, why not Kremlin in Moscow ? Or how about the Great Wall of China ? Its not exactly a city as such but certainly an outstanding example of ancient fortifications. Don't forget about several medieval Japanese cities with very well preserved fortifications ! The list could go on and on if you include other countries in Asia that boast whatever remains of their ancient fortresses. Before adding new names IMO what we really need is some agreed definition of what qualifies and what not.

Kola
Click to expand...

The Kremlin is a fortress, not the entire city. If one were to count fortresses, Prague Castle would be in a similar situation. I enjoyed visiting both.

Very little of the walls of Kiev remain, so I did not include it on my list, although the remains of the one surviving gate in the old walls is worth seeing. The same is true of Krakow, thanks to the Austrians who ran the place in 1866 and demolished most of the medieval walls of the major cities of their empire in the succeeding years after they proved to be of no military value in the Austro-Prussian War of that year. The Austrians knocked down most of the walls of Krakow, Lviv, Vienna, Prague, and Budapest. I probably should have included Budapest through, because much of the walls of the Buda section of the city, now known as castle hill, are still intact inspite of what the Austrians did to the more extensive walls of the Pest section on the other side of the river. Small sections of wall survive in Lviv, Krakow and Prague but they are totally gone in Vienna.

I did forget Lucca and San Marino, Italy and Rothenburg on the Tauber, which I have also visited.
 
LisaH said:
Haven't been to any of the cities mentioned above, but I just got back from Vienna, Austria and I believe my guide told me that part of the old town was walled at some point and some walls still remains...
Click to expand...

The Ring in Vienna, now a continuing series of broad boulevards around the old city, is where the old medieval walls of Vienna were once located.
 
Kola said:
As a traveller I would be interested in discounted fares on WallAir, WallCruise, and a WallCarRental. When are these services coming ? :clap:

Kola
Click to expand...

If you were on this side of the pond, you could try EasyJet, EasyCruise, and EasyCar, which discount their services far more than I suspect Walmart would.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top