List of cities with defensive walls

During the 1960s and 1970s, one-quarter of the historic settlement was rebuilt in a reconstruction project by the Government of Canada, including portions of its defensive walls.

Surrounding most of Old Quebec's Upper Town, construction of the wall began in the 1690s, with additional improvements and restorations done in the following centuries.

The citadel is military installation used by the Canadian Armed Forces and an official residence for the monarch and governor general of Canada.

The first permanent settlement in the area of Trois-Rivières, and the second one in New France, was originally surrounded by a palisade wall with several bastions.

When its glory period, the capital being a first European systemized ancient city (with city canal system for transportation and also large aisle and road for major transportation) in Indonesia, because Trowulan was developed in Majapahit's glory period in 13th–15th century.

Because Famagusta was still resisting, the Turks demolished much of the walls for fear of revolt or attack by the Venetians and the Great Christian Armada.

Many towns and cities still retain at least parts of their defensive walls, including: An ancient Castrum Maris stood in Birgu since the 13th century.

This was rebuilt as Fort St Angelo in the 16th and 17th centuries, when walls surrounding the entire city were built.

The city was heavily bombed in the Second World War, but its fortifications remain largely intact although they are in need of restoration.

The city walls were demolished in the 17th century, and at this point the Cittadella was rebuilt by the Order of Saint John.

The Kasbah of Aït Benhaddou , High Atlas
The seaside walls of Essaouira , Morocco
Walls and cannons of the old city of Cartagena
A 1660 map of New Amsterdam , later New York City . The city wall (right) gave Wall Street its name.
Watch towers on the citywall in Xi'an , China
12th century Jaisalmer Fortress City from northern approaches at dusk, in Jaisalmer, Rajestan, India . A World Heritage site.
The walled city of Intramuros in Manila
Tapae Gate in the eastern wall surrounding the old city of Chiang Mai.
Surrounded by a fortified wall, the 16th-century city of Shibam , Yemen
Roman walls of Hisarya
Vidin fortress
Town wall in Beroun
Wall and tower in Čáslav
Nymburk walls
Wall and bastion in Polička
Prague Pulverturm, Gate to the Staré Město
Town gate, Stará Boleslav
Town wall and defensive bastions in Třeboň
Part of Tallinn City Walls .
Caponier "Crescent 1" of the Hamina Fortress with the "Arrow fortress" on the background
The sea fortress of Suomenlinna off the coast of Helsinki
The walled city of Carcassonne in southern France
Tower and wall in town of Braubach , Germany
The great bulwark in Büdingen
Towers in Cologne, Germany part of former city wall
Tower in Regensburg, Germany part of former city wall
Rothenburg city wall
In the moat of Soest, Germany , with city wall and defense tower
Sömmerda city wall
Worms, Germany city walls
The walled medieval city of Monemvasia in southern Greece .
The seaside walls of Naupactus , Greece .
Towers for city wall in Genoa .
Town wall in Jesi .
Bastion Beck from Metz Square in Luxembourg City.
Defensive walls of Kalaja , Ulcinj .
City walls in Warsaw
City walls in Kraków
City walls in Paczków
Chojna
City walls in Olkusz
City walls in Szydłów
City walls in Stargard Szczeciński
City walls in Wrocław
The Sassanian fortress in Derbent .
The Smolensk City Wall from the 16th century
Inside Smederevo Fortress
Golubac Fortress
A part of the remaining defensive walls of Bratislava
Town castle in Kremnica
Plan of Geneva and environs in 1841. The colossal fortifications, among the most important in Europe, were demolished ten years later.
The late medieval walls of Lucerne , called Museggmauer or Stadtmauer.
A surviving section of the stone base of the walls of Troy , Turkey
Roman walls of Diyarbakır , Turkey