Old towns of Central Europe outlines a list of notable old towns in Central Europe
List
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Map of Old towns of Central Europe
Austria
[edit]Czech Republic
[edit]- 4 Cesky Krumlov, a UNESCO World Heritage Site with a mediaeval street layout with buildings from between the 15th and 19th centuries.
- 5 Karlovy Vary, a historic spa town, founded in 1370 with many 18th century buildings and historic spas where you can taste the waters.
- 6 Prague, a historical city with Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque architecture, with a castle founded in 870, an Old Town where markets were held in 1100 and a New Town which was founded in 1348.
- 7 Telc, a very well preserved Renaissance town.
Germany
[edit]- 8 Bamberg castle and churches galore seat of a formerly powerful archbishop popular with Americans as it is close to a former US barracks.
- 9 Cologne with the famous cathedral ("Kölner Dom").
- 10 Düsseldorf Cologne's old rival, rebuilt after the war
- 11 Dresden The "Florence of the Elbe" much of it destroyed in the second world war (but rebuilt much like it was before)
- Erfurt
- Göttingen
- Goslar
- Heidelberg
- 12 Lübeck formerly the heart of the Hanse severely destroyed in the second world war now mostly restored to her former beauty.
- Munich/City Center
- 13 Nuremberg a medieval and early modern gem, complete with castle and half timbered houses, even though much of it was destroyed and rebuilt because of World War II.
- 14 Quedlinburg old imperial town of the Ottonian dynasty of the 10th and 11th century AD.
- 15 Rothenburg ob der Tauber virtually untouched by war since the thirty years war in the 17th century one of the few cities to still have an intact city wall.
- 16 Nördlingen surrounded by a wall, built in the 14th century
- 17 Stralsund old Hanseatic city.
- 18 Trier oldest city in Germany, famous for its Roman Porta Nigra (Latin for black gate).
- Tübingen
- 19 Wismar another former member of the Hanse
Hungary
[edit]Poland
[edit]Slovakia
[edit]- 29 Bratislava, with a pleasant medieval inner city on the banks of the River Danube.
- 30 Košice
- 31 Prešov
- 32 Trenčín, with a restored town centre and a castle dating back to 179 CE.