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unusual facts about The Old Town



Emaar Properties

Emaar started construction on its most ambitious project to date on 1998, the AED 73 billion (US$20 billion) Burj Khalifa Downtown development, which comprises the Burj Khalifa - the tallest tower in the world when completed in 2009, the Dubai Mall, Burj Khalifa Business Hub, The Lofts, The Old Town, The Old Town Island, Burj Khalifa Boulevard, The Residences, Burj Views, man-made lakes, landscaped parks and gardens.


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Benickebrinken

Södra/Norra Benickebrinken (Swedish: "Southern/Northern Slope of Benicke") are two sloping streets in Gamla stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden, stretching from Österlånggatan up to Svartmangatan.

Bernese German

The variety of the – generally poor – people living in the part of the old town called Matte, known as Mattenenglisch (Matte-English), even though it has little relation with English, but has a number of loans from Jenisch, Rotwelsch and Yiddish.

Bluffton, Texas

In 2011, a severe drought caused lake levels to drop, re-exposing the old town to dry land.

Drummond Street

Drummond Street, Edinburgh, a street in the Old Town of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Düsseldorf-Carlstadt

It is in the south of the Old Town (Altstadt) and named after the Duke Carl-Theodor, who founded this borough.

Fianarantsoa

Fianarantsoa was placed by the World Monuments Fund on its 2008 Watch List of the 100 Most Endangered Sites because many of the buildings in the old town are in dire need of repair.

Fred Holstein

Fred began playing around Chicago in the 1960s, first at places like the Old Town Pub and a bar in Morton Grove called Scot's Cellar.

Imaad Shah

Imaad made his acting debut in 2006 in Yun Hota To Kya Hota and in 2007 in Dil Dosti Etc, under Prakash Jha, where he played a young Delhi University student with a penchant for the secret corners of the old town.

Irbit Fair

Long, narrow dormitories are a feature of the old town with enormous wharf areas being found at the juncture of the Nitsa and Irbit rivers.

Kanslikajen

Kanslikajen (Swedish: "Chancellery Quay") is a quay in Gamla stan, the old town of Stockholm, Sweden, leading west along the southern shore of the canal Stallkanalen from Stallbron and Mynttorget to Vasabron.

Kolmätargränd

The present alley is one of the shortest in the old town, and while an article about it might seem superfluous, it has reached an all but legendary status among a large number of Swedes through the still popular troubadour Carl Michael Bellman (1740–1795) and his 34th epistle named Till Movitz, när elden var lös i hans kvarter uti Kolmätargränden ("To Movitz, when fire ravaged his block in Kolmätargränden").

Köpmanbrinken

Köpmanbrinken (Swedish: "Merchant's Slope") is a street composed of two slopes, in Gamla stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden.

Kotli Loharan East

The name of this town is derived from word Kotli Aunchi (high), the old town in K L East, which Later become Kotli Loharan.

Lacon, Alabama

Exit 318 of Interstate 65 is the "Lacon" exit and is less than one mile South of the old town site and present day flea market.

Manas County

The county seat is the old town of Manas (玛纳斯), located on the Manasi River just east of Shihezi.

Masbrough

The River Don divides Masbrough from the old town of Rotherham.

Matthews, Indiana

Now the "old town" of Matthews, the village has a wooden covered bridge, the Cumberland Covered Bridge, built in 1877 which crosses the Mississinewa River.

McGrath, Alaska

The Old Town McGrath site, across the river from present-day McGrath, was a meeting and trading place for Big River, Nikolai, Telida, and Lake Minchumina villagers.

Mścięcino

bus lines 101 (to the Old Town of Police, Przęsocin and a centre of Szczecin), 102 (to the Old Town and the New Town of Police and Szczecin-Skolwin and Szczecin-Gocław), 107 (to the New Town of Police, Przęsocin and a centre of Szczecin)

North Bastion

North Bastion, Gibraltar, a bastion at the northwest corner of the old town of Gibraltar

Numana

The old town is often called "Numana alta" as it is on top of a cliff overlooking the sea and can be described almost in continuity with the settlement of Sirolo, while "Numana bassa" includes the area around the port.

Old Town Bar and Restaurant

Several artists and Hollywood directors have used the Old Town as a backdrop for their productions and movie scenes, including rap group House of Pain in the music video for Jump Around (1992) and director Whit Stillman for his The Last Days of Disco (1998).

Överskärargränd

Överskärargränd (Swedish: "Cloth Finisher's Alley" or, literally, "Over-cutter's Alley") is an alley in Gamla stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden.

Pill Harriers RFC

At the end of Jeddo Street, Baldwin Street and Marion Street in Pill was an area of bogland which was filled with ballast from ships calling at the Old Town Dock, North Dock and Alexandra Dock.

Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val

The old town hall (even as controversially restored by Viollet-le-Duc) is also of very high quality - as shown by this exquisite carving of Adam, Eve, the Serpent and the Tree of Knowledge.

Samsat

The old town of Samsat and all its history were flooded behind the Atatürk Dam in 1989.

Sasunik

It was founded as a collective farm in 1955, and villagers were resettled from the old town of Sasunik in 1960.

Schlüsselfeld

in Schlüsselfeld: the Town Gate Tower with remains of the town wall and two round towers, the Petrusbrunnen (fountain), the Old Town Hall with pillory, the New Town Hall, the Gothic parish church, the Klein-Mariazell im Steigerwald church (with a copy of the Icon of Mariazell in the Steiermark, Austria)

Sevnica Castle

Situated atop a hill, it dominates the old town of Sevnica and offers views the surrounding countryside.

Skeppsbron

Skeppsbron (Swedish: "The Ship's Bridge") is both a street and a quay in Gamla stan, the old town of Stockholm, capital of Sweden, stretching from the bridge Strömbron in front of the Royal Palace southward to Slussen.

South Bastion

South Bastion, Gibraltar, a bastion at the southwest corner of the old town of Gibraltar

The Big Tree, Rockport

The Big Tree is located near the old town of Lamar, in Goose Island State Park.

Tyska

Tyska Brinken, street in Gamla stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden

Tyska Skolgränd, alley in Gamla stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden, stretching from Svartmangatan to Baggensgatan

Tyska Stallplan, street in Gamla stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden

Tyska Brunnsplan, small, triangular public square in Gamla stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden

University Hospital Dresden

The hospital is situated in the Johannstadt part of the city, in the suburb east of the old town, between the Großer Garten park and the river Elbe.

Uppland Runic Inscription 53

Uppland Runic Inscription 53 is a runestone built into a wall in the intersection between the thoroughfares Prästgatan and Kåkbrinken in Gamla stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden.

As preserved written records from the old town give no hints of a developed knowledge in writing and reading runes in Stockholm and as these stones are too heavy to be transported very far, they are believed to have been brought in from the surrounding rural outskirts of the city, presumably from any of the Iron Age settlements of which traces have been discovered on both Norrmalm and Södermalm and considerably older than the city itself.

Utebo

Utebo is distributed in three centres: the Old Town, El Monte (area developed in the 40's) and the neighborhood of Malpica (bordering the neighborhood of Casetas, which belongs to Zaragoza).

Vennel

Aberdeen City Council refers to vennels having been part of the old town and historical records suggest Arbroath had a vennel.

Wust, Saxony-Anhalt

The village is situated in the northern Saxony-Anhalt not far from the river Elbe, near the old town Tangermünde which was a favourite place of Kaiser Karl IV in 14th century.