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unusual facts about city walls



Lamel Hill

It is best known for having been the location of a Parliamentary gun-emplacement aimed at Walmgate Bar in the City Walls during the Siege of York in 1644.

Verulamium

There are a few remains of the Roman city visible, such as parts of the city walls, a hypocaust still in situ under a mosaic floor and a theatre, which is on land belonging to the Earl of Verulam – as well as items in the Museum (below).

Villa Bílek

Located on site of former city walls (see preserved Písek Gate nearby) the villa has an unusual shape resembling trace of a scythe in a field.


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Battle of Agrigentum

Hannibal Gisco, the commander of Agrigentum and the son of Gisgo, gathered many of the people who lived in the area surrounding the city behind the city walls, swelling the population of the city to about 50,000; his garrison, however, was relatively small.

Beer in Austria

The brewery's organization is unique in that the brewery is a commune - owned and operated by those individuals who own a house within the city walls, thus the name of the town Freistadt (free-city).

Brasier

Nevertheless, Brasier retained the premises originally acquired by the Richard-Brasier company in Ivry, then as now just outside the ring formed by the old city walls (today followed by the "Périphérique" motor-way) on the southern edge of central Paris.

Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor

Charles also had strong ties to Nuremberg, staying within its city walls 52 times and thereby strengthening its reputation amongst German cities.

Hibera

In August 2007 archaeologists brought to light the remains of some of the city walls, dating from the 7th century B.C near to the city of Tortosa.

Holy Basin

Northerly - from Viri galilaei church, to the northeast corner of the city walls of the Old City, and along the wall up to the Schmidt school compound, and along the wall up to its corner in Jaffa Road.

Hotel Ukrayina

A beautiful Linden wood covered the surrounding hills forming a picturesque view from the city walls.

Hwaseong Fortress

Namsumun, meaning South Floodgate, sat across the Suwoncheon at the downstream end of the city walls.

Hyde Abbey

In 1109 Henry I ordered the New Minster to be removed to the suburb of Hyde Mead, to the north of the city walls, just outside the gate; when the new abbey church of Hyde was consecrated in 1110, the bodies of Alfred, his wife Ealhswith, and his son Edward the Elder were carried in state through Winchester to be interred once more before the high altar.

Institut Polaire

"City Walls and Empires" is a split 7" single (w/ The Bank Holidays) released by Love Is My Velocity Records in May 2006.

Italian campaign of 1524–25

Francis had encamped the majority of his forces in the great walled park of Mirabello outside the city walls, placing them between Leyva's garrison and the approaching relief army.

Jezzar Pasha

With the help of his chief financial adviser, Haim Farhi, a Damascus Jew, Jezzar Pasha embarked on a major building program in Acre that included fortifying the city walls, refurbishing the aqueduct that brought spring water from nearby Kabri, and building a large Turkish bath.

Jirhangga

Before the 1856 Chinese New Year, Jirhangga and Mayor Nanjing led 15,000 troop, and broke into Shanghai after mining one of the city walls ; this was followed by street fighting, the recovery of Shanghai county, and finally, the arrest of thousands of Small Swords Society members.

Joshua Matza

The operation entailed planting a bomb outside the New Gate of the Old City walls.

Judgement Tower

It is one of several surviving elements of the former city walls; others include the Water Tower and the Jewish Tower, while the Benetke Tower was demolished in the late 1960s to make way for a hydroelectric reservoir.

La Foncalada

The Foncalada is a fountain of potable water located outside the city walls of Oviedo, Asturias, Spain; it was built by king Alfonso III of Asturias in the 9th century.

Leopolda railway

Pontedera was reached on 19 October 1845 (19.4 km), Empoli on 21 June 1847 (km 26.8) and the following year on 10 June 1848, the entire 97 km long line was opened to traffic from Livorno San Marco station to Leopolda station, just outside Florence’s city walls at Porta al Prato.

Lewin's Mead

The area was situated outside the medieval city walls and was partly occupied by the estate of St Bartholomew's Hospital and also by Greyfriars, Bristol.

Musée Rath

It is located on Place Neuve, in front of the old city walls, next to the Grand Théâtre and near the Conservatoire de Musique.

Newport Arch

It is one of many original Roman arches still open to traffic, other examples being two gates through the city walls of the Roman town of Diocletianopolis (now Hisarya, Bulgaria), as well as numerous examples in Turkey.

Qidong Street Japanese Houses

Prior to the construction of the Taipei City Walls, one could travel from Mengjia (today's Wanhua District) past the East Gate area and along Qidong Street which joined Bade Road, leading to Songshan, Nangang, and eventually Keelung.

Rebellion of Cao Qin

The Emperor spared some of the culprits the sentence of death by commuting their sentence to imprisonment instead; this included Vice Commissioner-in-chief Esen Temür, who lowered himself down the city walls of Beijing and was later found in a farmer's melon patch as far as Tongzhou District.

Saint William's Church, Strasbourg

Returning unharmed from the Crusades, the knight Henri de Müllenheim undertook the construction of a monastery for the Hermits of Saint William, an order of mendicant monks, in this marshy neighbourhood situated extra muros, that is, beyond the city walls.

San Giovanni Fuoricivitas

The adjective fuoricivitas (a mix of Italian and Latin meaning "outside the city") refers to the fact that, when it was founded during the Lombard rule in Italy, was located outside the city walls.

San Marco in Calcesana

It was located next the gateway in the city walls of the road that lead to Calci, hence the name Calcesana.

Siege of Isfahan

The Afghans lacked artillery to breach the city walls and blockaded Isfahan in order to bend Shah Sultan Husayn Safavi, and the city's defenders into surrender.

St Michael at the North Gate

The Oxford Martyrs were imprisoned in the Bocardo Prison by the church before they were burnt at the stake in what is now Broad Street nearby, then immediately outside the city walls, in 1555 and 1556.

St Swithun-upon-Kingsgate Church

Located above the medieval Kingsgate, one of the principal entrances to the city, the church is unusual in forming a part of the fabric of the old city walls.

Turkcell

Since 1999, Turkcell has supported the restoration of the ancient city walls in Bodrum.

Walls of Genoa

The first known city walls were built in the 9th century, when thanks to Berengar II of Italy the city gained a wide autonomy, with subsequent economic development and population increase.

Wandesford House

The almshouse lies a few yards outside the city walls on the north-west side of Bootham behind its front garden and between houses of later date.

York old railway station

It was succeeded by what is now the old station, built at the junction of Toft Green, Tanner Row and Station Rise inside the city walls by the Y&NM's architect George Townsend Andrews in 1840.

Zeynep Ahunbay

Dr. Ahunbay's best-known works are the restoration of the Zeyrek Mosque with the art historians the professors Metin Ahunbay and Robert Ousterhout, as well as the restoration of Istanbul's city walls.